Column: IN teens join dangerous street ‘takeovers’ in Chicago – Northwest Indiana Times

Weekend mayhem: Region teens join dangerous street 'takeovers' in Chicago“I think the attraction to these kids are the sports cars,” a Valparaiso mother said. “They think it’s fun when police show up, so they take off and get chased. ... My son is 19, so there’s nothing I can do, honestly. If I say don’t go, he’s going to anyway. If I kick him out of my house over it, I’d be a mess worrying if he’s OK, where he’s staying, and would he ever forgive me.”
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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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