Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
We need the crime stats for non-criminals, not the crime stats for criminals. I only care about the stats for non-criminals, which I believe has skyrocketed over the past 3 years. Historically, a lot of crime in Chicago is criminal-on-criminal, which few people care about, which wildly skew the stats.