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Protesters stopped crews from putting a layer of gravel over the lot, a requirement for building a tent site; they demanded a copy of an environmental assessment of the lot and of construction work permits authorizing building to begin on a space intended to house migrants. The city did not answer questions about the work at the site but said the environmental assessment was ongoing.
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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Elmwood-Evergreen-Melrose-Palos-Richton-Schiller-and Tinley Park all these towns end with Park. Now Migrant Park is added and will become another town by itself. Soon the jumpers will vote for a mayor/police chief/fire dept/Migrant School Dist 000 and will become the largest most populace town of all those I mentioned. Migrant Park,Illinois and the school district 000 mascot’s name will be the “Jumper”
Obviously white supremacists protecting their neighborhood says clowns in charge Johnson & Pritzger