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The Chicago and Cook County Coalition for Humane Migration Management is calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle to personally ask President Joe Biden for $300 million in federal money to move the migrants to more suitable shelters, considering winter is coming soon.
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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That makes even less sense than Google’s goofy plan to use it a Loop office — for in-demand high tech workers that no longer need to commute downtown
If Joe is going to give that kind of dough to Chicago he’ll have to ask Hunter for an advance on his allowance.