Not even a global health crisis has slowed down Joe Monsueto’s recent streak of high-profile investments. Since buying the Chicago Fire FC—the city’s Major League Soccer franchise—in 2019, Mansueto has purchased the Waldorf Astoria Chicago hotel, bankrolled a $50 million office redevelopment in Humboldt Park and recently unveiled a plan to build a roughly $90 million training complex and headquarters for the soccer club on 32 acres in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood. His latest pursuit, though further from home, is just as attention-grabbing: He’s kicking tires on buying another soccer club overseas that could serve as an affiliate for the

Their “manifesto” is linked here.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said: “We don’t talk enough in this country about race and the impact over time of racism.

State Comptroller Susana Mendoza went last.

“I think we do need to acknowledged that race permeates everything in this city,” she said.

Then there’s the other possibility: “Pritzker gets in? Turn out the lights!”

Facing junk-bond status as it drowns in underfunded pension obligations, the Chicago public school system is trying to induce investors to buy its debt through an accounting scheme that will (theoretically) allow the bonds to keep paying interest even if the system goes belly-up.

Comment: A horribly burden on developers that, for years, has gotten few results.

It’s been 18 months since the Chicago Housing Authority closed its wait list for coveted housing choice vouchers, which pay all or part of the rent for poor people to live in homes leased by private landlords. But since then, the agency has added 1,035 households to the list — and handed them vouchers — ahead of about 45,000 households already on the list, many of who have been waiting several years, according to CHA records.