Chicago man had 4 guns in his bedroom while on electronic monitoring for murder and gun cases: prosecutors – CWB Chicago

Prosecutors charged Bertell Johnson, 23, with four counts of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, possession of a machine gun, and three drug-related felonies for suspected cocaine, cannabis, and oxycodone the sheriff’s team allegedly recovered. “This is the 2nd case the [defendant] picked up while on [pretrial release],” Judge Kelly McCarthy wrote as she ordered Johnson detained to await trial.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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.

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