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.
“Mayor Brandon Johnson and his supporters have been silent on escalating violence against Chicago Police, the impact pretrial release may be having on witnesses and victims, and on the need to hold Cook County judges responsible for their reckless decisions.” Well, the above is why so many people have left Chicago. It is unsafe. I do not trust Crook County judges. Johnson and Pritzker have no idea how to prevent crime and truly do not care about the crime victims. Vallas used CWB Chicago as a source. What would we do without CWB Chicago reporting true crime facts? All Johnson… Read more »