Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
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Chicago is reportedly considering a massive new bond offering designed to fund its woefully underfunded pension obligations. City leaders are reportedly briefing city aldermen ‘behind closed doors.’ The bond offering would certainly improve Chicago pension plans’ odds of passing stress tests. But it would also increase the size and risk of the city’s overall balance sheet.
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Brazen election interference: Illinois Democrats retroactively change law to knock out Republican challengers. Surely, lawsuits must follow. – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
Chicago needs more champions of literacy like Willie Wilson – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
Don’t fall for the “progressive-income-tax-for-property-tax-relief” tax swap referendum – Wirepoints
May 6, 2024
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While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
Pritzker doubles down with $827 million of taxpayer money for expansion by troubled electric vehicle maker, Rivian – Wirepoints
May 3, 2024
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At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.