Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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.
this article from a year ago is even more damming about how the cha paid off its pension debit an astounding 9 years more than required ahead of schedule instead of distributing section 8 voucher $–astoundingly uncovered by CTBA,—oophsie, I thought CTBA was pretty much in the JB Madigan camp. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/06/chic-f03.html “CHA’s commitment to spending money on anything besides housing can also be seen, perversely, in CHA’s decision to overfund its pension plan. In FY 2012, CHA contributed $28.9 million to the CHA Employee Retirement Plan and Trust, when the legally required contribution was only $2.8 million. In other words,… Read more »
This trib article from Jan of 2017 completely contradicts Mr. Jones and says it all about the cha (city) sitting on section 8 voucher $ and instead using voucher $ to pay off cha debit. article is even backed by (union friendly )CTBA
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-cha-finances-report-met-20170112-story.html
Yup. It’s wrong to say Rahm is racist, but it’s pretty obvious the strategy for a long time has been to push the poor out of the city. One of the city’s bond offering documents bragged about how the city has swapped out lower income folks for higher earners.
Doesn’t IRS data contradict what the bond offering says? Or is that just at a state level vs local level?