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After a teen takeover failed to materialize Friday in River North, teens gathered Saturday along Hyde Park’s commercial corridors, where they were met by around 100 police officers. Between encounters with police, young people were dancing and taking pictures with friends, with no obvious use of drugs or alcohol.
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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Another attempt at redefinition.
Joining a mob = hanging out with my friends
Blocking buildings, streets and expressway ramps = free speech
People paid to teach showing up at the same place and time as students required to be there = education
What’s next? Throwing homosexuals off buildings = religion?
As a teen I hung out wit friends but didn’t shoot or attack people and cause property damage. Call this what it is, violent teen groups. Arrest them and hold parents accountable.
It’s going to be a violent summer in Chicago.
So.. dumb luck or a police presence prevented another Floyd fest? I’ll bet on the latter.
Hyde Park……is that where the Kenyan lived?