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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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Irvin lost in Aurora because JB has a gold-plated personal vendetta against him. The new mayor is a moron, and Aurora voters will rue the day they voted for him.
I personally know over 30 DuPage residents, all Republicans, who left IL for FL, AZ, SC, and TN. Ten more ready to move. The majority moved cause of high taxes, pension debt, and the realization that IL will be inexorably blue, no matter what. While I sympathize with Mark and others who say, don’t move, fight, I had to look out for myself and am very pessimistic about a Republican comeback. Demographics are against it and residents’ delusions that Democrats have the answers. Those who are leaving are making their red states more red, red states that will gain seats… Read more »
Seems to be a win-win to me in that both sides get more of what they want. That’s the beauty of living in a society where people are free to live where they choose and enjoy or endure the results.
IL is set to burn, financially then actually.
I would use the word “Brainwashed” instead of delusional which also works. People cannot see the forest for the trees. Most voters are either recipients or will be soon so they not only want to keep the status quo but solidify it by voting for the same people over and over again.
I keep saying it. Racial demographics.
1990
White non Hispanic 74.8%
Hispanics 7.9%
Black 14.8%
Asian – Pacific Islander 2.5%
American Indian .2%
Totals 100.2% due to rounding
2023
Black alone, percent (a)(a)14.6%American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent (a)(a)0.6%Asian alone, percent (a)(a)6.3%Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent (a)(a)0.1%Two or More Races, percent2.3%Hispanic or Latino, percent (b)(b)19.0% White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent58.8%
Population of Whites has dropped from 74.8% in 1990 to 58.8% in 2023.
As an added note, Whites in our schools are at 48% and going down.
CONNECT the dots!
Yes, today we’ve flooded the country with third world immigrants – just as we did in the 1880-1910 period – and now people somehow shocked that they mostly vote Democrat, just as they all did back then too.
That was the point of flooding the US with immigrants, to make them all vote Democrat.
=That was the point of flooding the US with immigrants, to make them all vote Democrat.=
Actually more about cheap labor. But then again, in 1885 the nation had only 55 million people instead of 335 million, there was still a lot of open space and NO Welfare state.
Just shows you that the American public never learns and that history does indeed repeat itself for the negative.
Actually, I think it’s college-educated upper-middle class folks, women in particularly, who knee-jerk support all causes of “progressive liberal politics”, as a social status indicator, as proof of belonging to the upper-middle success-story ID badge. Add the yoga clothes, the big frame eyeglasses, several artistic tattoos, and statement jewelry, and you’re there. Same ladies who once proudly drove their status-car Tesla, now group-think it’s “ok” to key a Tesla, so long as it’s not their own car. They also still think there’s no crime problem in Chicago, that it’s all exaggerated media coverage; when it happens to them, or their… Read more »
Listen to any audio emanating from a social justice protest and see how many men you detect.
Very well written comment! As a former Chicago resident, your description of these liberal types perfectly matches my experience with Chicago residents and coworkers.
I can remember DuPage carrying Hillary in 2016 and just shaking my head.Then the electorate voted in a leftist to head the DuPage County Board, and now applauding her removing Henry Hyde’s name from the courthouse. I figured this day would eventually come, but all this “progress” seems to have happened much quicker than I thought.
I don’t believe that Illinois’ latest election results were impacted by Trump’s actions. This state is so far gone it doesn’t matter what’s happening on the national level. We’re just screwed. We have low-intelligence, leftist voters in this state who will never change and those of us who stay in the state for any number of reasons, and there are many, will just have to live with it. I hit back by buying everything I can in Indiana just based on principle. I know Illinois needs my tax dollars, but those same tax dollars would be used for corrupt, leftist… Read more »
Naperville voted in more anti-Constitutional city council members.
Look for this place to turn into Chicago, Seattle, Portland, etc. soon. Looking forward to CHAZ 2.0!
With zero clean up of voter roles in IL, the Democrats are free to cheat without consequences.
Fleeing from Chicago with all its issues and problems to the nearby suburbs and then voting for the same party that caused the issues and problems in Chicago makes sense to me. Kinda like the Calicrazies moving to Texas, Montana, Idaho or from New York to Florida and doing the same thing. Ya just can’t fix stupid. People who vote for democrats are really stupid.
Those who leave California are statistically more conservative than the places they are moving to. Look it up, it’s true.
The suburban Chicago problem is completely different. Conservative suburbanites leave the state, or in many cases, die, and they are replaced mostly with foreign born loyal Democrat voters, or, Chicagoans who actively want to turn their suburban community dark blue. That AWFL moving to Arl. Hts. from Lake View loves Democrats no matter where she lives or votes.
The problem with Illinois are the people that live here.
Agreed. My Lifelong Republican voting parents who moved to DuPage from Cook County are passed on (and probably voting D)
My wife and I had it with extortionate taxes and left Illinois
My wife’s cousin and his wife had it with extortionate taxes and left Illinois
As did many other family members on both sides
And all of us replaced by liberals either of our skin pallor or foreign born looking for gimmies.
My grandmother’s home the suburbs, which at one point my great-grand mother, grandmother, mother, and niece and nephew and myself, all lived in at one point in our lives, was sold two years ago for top dollar, and was purchased by a straight from hispanic family with 3.5% down using an FHA loan. Do you think they vote Democrat? Probably!
Or problem is the current college-educated populace don’t educate themselves on issues, simply vote by personal perception of their presumed social-class affiliation.
Jeanne Ives does a great job summing up republican clock-cleaning election losses on this youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidwvnZexeI).
With very low total turnout (-20%?), what happens is the public sector folks and their family members show up and therefore sweep. My theory is public sec folks & family members are even more motivated to show up and vote for fear of being Trump-Musk DOGEd.
This excellent CC clerk voter sight puts total turnout at 16.96% and many board races, etc in signal digits-YIKES!! (https://electionnight.cookcountyclerkil.gov/)
With big Trump/ republican losses in local state races, does this press Trump admin to move even faster to shove thru their “one beautiful bill”?…I think YES.
The non-partisan races are designed to be difficult to navigate. That’s why Democrats usually win most of them. A guy I listen to on the radio didn’t get too upset about the loses. He says that in the NFL, a team can beat the same team in its division twice in a season, but it is nearly impossible for that team to win a third time in the playoffs, because losing motivates a twice loser like nothing else can. Republicans control the house, the senate, the Supreme Court, the presidency, and we soon will control the bureaucracy as DOGE fires… Read more »
The real winner was apathy; nobody cares anymore because voting makes no difference in the outcome in IL.
Speaking personally, I think many conservatives have just checked out. Yes I made a point to vote, but It was really for the benefit of others as I’m sincerely no longer invested in Illinois or my community. Jeanne talks about Republicans just not turning out. You can also say with the 20% turnout that the Democrats didn’t either. Yes they won, but I think conservatives are just plain tired of Illinois. I know I am.
Rick Pearson, the article’s author, is a left-winger. Richard Irvin and Pat Brady seem to be RINOs.
It’s ‘far-left’, there is no such thing as left. It’s only ‘far-left’. Always followed by ‘nutjob’. Far-left nutjob.
More correctly Communist.
As a former elected Libertarian in DuPage county( one of 16 at the time), we tried to warn you about the direction back in the late 1990’s. Here is Ada County, Idaho. I’m now vice chair for one of the legistative districts for the GOP and over the last 2 election cycles, we eliminated all elected Democrats from county offices and are only getting stronger down ballot. Boise, where I live is blue, but we do the work to make a difference. I was taught this by one of the best “get out the vote men”, for the Daley Machine.… Read more »
Demographically and statistically there are not enough Republicans left in northern Illinois to make the difference. Democrats with low turnout would still beat Republicans with high turnout. In your case, trying to find Republicans in Idaho is like trying to find Zebra Mussels in Lake Michigan – they’re everywhere. In Illinois, it’s not like that. No one is doing anything here, not because no one cares, but rather, because Illinois is a lost cause, and there are better opportunities elsewhere. Look at the map of the chicago region, it’s dark blue as far as the eye can see, with even… Read more »
Irvin was punished for running against JB. Aurora is punishing itself by throwing Irvin out of office.