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One resident, turned away from a checkpoint on their way home, said they slept in their car.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Still seething about this, and it’s Thursday as I write this. We were both leaving downtown on Monday night at 9:30 – he from his job, and I from a practice with a well-known symphonic choral group. There were a few cars driving around still with Mexican flags, but less than half a dozen that we actually saw. In general, traffic was fairly light. Yet it was impossible to get onto Lake Shore Drive. All streets eastbound were blocked until Jackson. Absurd beyond belief! I have no clue what they’re celebrating. This isn’t Mexico. Last time I checked, drug cartels… Read more »
Government failed? Isn’t that the same as saying water is wet? Chicago government failing would be a safe assumption, not news.
Want to celebrate Mexican Independence Day- GO BACK to Mexico. This is just a political statement by these people to put down Whites.
Amazing level of incompetence and sloth displayed by Chicago government this past weekend. Streeterville residents, and Near North residential property owners in general are probably THE most reliable payers of their levied RE taxes, sales taxes, municipal fees and tickets, utility bills, income taxes, et al, and yet also probably the worst-served Chicago residents. We are at the mercy of ineptitude and distain of City Hall and Mayor Knucklehead, and prisoners of whatever downtown tourist attractions sponsored and/or supported by City Hall and said incompetent mayor. And yes, I know, many of my neighbors are the same progressive white-collar liberals… Read more »
Officer I live down the street can I get home? Sorry this street is reserved for illegal aliens to party on, go,away…..oh wait…..make sure you pay real estate taxes.
Maybe being a sanctuary city and sanctuary state weren’t such good ideas?
Our leaders don’t care from whom or where their Democrat votes come from, as long as they vote Democrat. So sanctuary status is a good thing as long as it brings Democrat votes into the city.
Don’t blame the police officers on the front lines. Blame their bosses who planned this operation and gave instructions on how it was to be carried out.
You must show your papers. No papers? Off to the camps. Of course, many of the people celebrating have no papers, but that OK. It’s just you simps that are citizens that need to prove your status in order to go home. Your acceptance of your abject slavery is a site to behold.
You would think with all the Mexican’s in Chicago that you could walk into any Mexican restaurant and get food better than Chi Chi’s or Taco Bell – but you can’t. Some of the Mexican restaurants seem to serve up dog food. I mean, what’s the point of all these Mexican immigrants!?
Mexican peasants are a simple people with simple tastes, and much like Taco Bell, they use the same 8 ingredients in every recipe. It’s not dog food but it is peasant slop. And that’s OK. I eat a lot of slop myself, being a well-nourished individual. As I think I’ve said here before, the Mexican restaurant market is really, extremely over-saturated in the Chicago market. Few Mexican restaurants, even the established ones, are making any money. Most are losing money or breaking even. I know this for a fact. I personally know one guy who owns three Mexican restaurants throughout… Read more »
Grilled Polish or Brat is way superior to some of the slop I have choked down at some ‘authentic’ Mexican restaurants in CI. Like I said, if you can’t even get good food what is the point of all these Mexican immigrants!? To the contrary I’ve had excellent Chinese and Vietnamese and Indian food, and the ingredients seem simple.
Who is at fault? Anyone that continues to live in Chicago.
The heck with “ranking officers” at checkpoints reviewing IDs, there shouldn’t be any checkpoints because the roads should NOT be shutdown. Any “celebrating” other than at the official parade on Sunday should have been stopped. Enforce the basic rules of the road, ticket and tow cars that were parked in intersections, on highway shoulders, etc.
They don’t allow this S&*% in Mexico, why are we putting up with it here.
And so it goes in CHI when people are allowed to congregate and do whatever they want without the help of the three letter agencies ( think DNC ). Snelling and all the others that were patting themselves on their collective backs can now sit down to a heaping helping of crow.
It’s 9 pm and my mom has been stuck in this traffic for over an hour. She’s been non stop since 6 am and she can’t get home to us. You can have a day. You can have a weekend. Wtf is going on with the roads at 9 pm on a Monday. This is absurd. Worse than last year. Shame on everyone. This is beyond celebration, worse than a nuisance. This is flagrant bs.
This is letting you know – the irish, polish, italians, black, and everyone else – this is NOT YOUR city any more. They own the city, it’s their city, and they’re going to celebrate the independence of a completely different country that many of them have never even been to. Chicago will likely be renamed Nuevo Michoacan or some variant in my lifetime, and every monument to Chicago’s racist founders will be replaced. You have been conquered, my friend. Keep voting Democrat.
Remember when I said a while back it would be within the realm of possibility that the official language may change to Spanish from English? Every time you contact any company by phone about anything you are prompted to press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish and maybe 3 for Klingon. Most of the Spanish I walk by in stores are speaking Spanish not English including the kids. That means they are speaking their native language at home. I give it 5-10 years at most when this will be brought up by lawmakers. Will it pass I doubt it… Read more »
It’s possible. I have no idea if Illinois requires public hearings in English but I doubt it, the lefty states have always been against making English the official language. Imagine going to a city council meeting in some suburb and it’s conducted in entirely in Spanish. For a while in CA, and maybe still today, there was a push to have the public schools teach entirely in Spanish, under the assumption that kids would learn better if they were taught in their native language, calling it ‘bi-lingual education’ but it was really Spanish only, and these kids struggle to speak… Read more »
I speak Klingon.
nuqDaq ‘oH puchpa” e’ (Where’s the Bathroom)
Qapla’ (success)
Actually, I am fluent in both Spanish and Klingon. The Spanish is very handy when you live in Chicago. And Klingon is a must for socializing at Star Trek conventions.