Former southeastern Illinois police chief faces federal charges – Capitol News IL

In Illinois, the link between the crime and the property can be very loose in forfeiture cases, said Ed Yohnka, spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. Prosecutors alleged the vehicles surrendered in these three cases were used in the commission of crimes, but instead of filing a civil action to take possession of the vehicles, prosecutors opted to have defendants surrender them as part of a plea bargain.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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.

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