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Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf will be deposed in a lawsuit stemming from a shooting during a White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field in August 2023, a Cook County judge ordered Friday, per multiple reports.
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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This incident was well covered by Second City Cop. Suggest WP readers start there.
It was covered up originally because it was teachers night at Sox park. Of course the Chicago press sat on it . Banjo the Clown asked the cops to bury it. Can’t let anyone know a gun was brought in illegally by a teacher
she shot herself or her friend’s gun shot her
Wow, it’s been that long since an overweight teacher from Oswego snuck a gun in that went off and she handed it off to a pal that beat it out of there? Time sure flies, but in the end the result was predictable- the Sox still lost.