Editorial: Chicago is in a bind. It needs more than short-term fixes to get out. – Washington Post*

"The deeper issue is that Chicago needs more than tweaks. This package does nothing to address the core reasons Chicago perennially finds itself in this mess: stagnant growth, out-of-control spending and underfunded pensions."
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Deb
5 months ago

Chicago and CPS refuse to be fiscally responsible. Close underutilized schools, cut wasteful spending, and stop political hires

Sweet Home Alabama
5 months ago

That’s behind a paywall

Admin
5 months ago

The headline is pretty much all it says. Significant, though, when even the Washington Post is saying it.

Irish Patriot
5 months ago
Reply to  Mark Glennon

Few outside the beltway care what the Washington Post has to say about anything. I don’t care really no one under 70 years old cares either. They survive to print another day on Bezos and the treasonous government operation that was Woodward and Bernstein, those two disdainful Democrat, part of a subversive government op to overthrow a duly elected president who won 49 of 50 states. My AP US high school history teacher showed this movie to my class as if it were the truth delivered from Herodotus himself; only to discover later, it was actually, and literally, a total… Read more »

joseph A Murzanski
5 months ago

Johnsons’ plan is to borrow more billions at a high interest rate because Chicago is near junk bond status. Whatta guy!

Da Judge
5 months ago

This is what his low IQ public sector union workers have demanded.

Merry Christmas!!

Leaving Soon, just not soon enough
5 months ago

Keep using the credit card till it is refused. This is the Illinois way. The public sector unions run government into the ground.

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