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.
The perp was apparently being being treated at the hospital and held as a prisoner, which reminds me of the motto at Stroger Cook County Hospital, according to somebody working worked in the ER there: “The live you save may take your own.”