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Earlier this month, the Cook County Land Bank Authority awarded Elaine Bell-Quinn the deed to the land at 4738 W. Monroe St., which is next to her family’s longtime home at 4742 W. Monroe St. They’ll grow raspberries, strawberries, onions, peppers, asparagus, thyme, elderberries, gooseberries, turnips, beets, collards, kale, tomatoes and corn, helping to nourish their neighbors with fresh produce.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Wishing her good luck. My guess is people will steal the produce from her.
Gardening is not easy. I tried organic gardening for the first time last year, and my broccoli and brussel sprouts were destroyed by aphids, my cucumbers and squash caught the powder mildew, my tomato plants died after not being watered for two days, beetles decimated my blackberries, ants ate most of my herbs, borers destroyed my pumpkin stems, and slugs ate all my chard and lettuce leaves. The only decent crop I had were super hot peppers. So I have about 100 dried out hot peppers in my pantry but I only use maybe one or two a year.