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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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How about when the inspector told you he has a friend that can fix the sign for you? More than one kind of shake down in the Chitty.
All those fines for small infractions are nothing more than the old time shakedowns by the mob or local thugs but done legally now. Chicago is burnt toast. One by one until there are none.
when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing… you may know that your society is doomed.” ~ Ayn Rand
Downers Grove has a lot of great restaurants and they do very well — smart move — this is West Town’s loss — all thanks to city’s bureaucratic Gestapo tactics