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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.
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.
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Wow, only 108 shootings and 36 people killed in March in Chicago. My goodness isn’t that an amazing statistic to be celebrating over? It is down from previous months, but 36 people were shot and killed in March in an American City. It has become so common place that people hardly pay any attention anymore. Nutsy.
Of course the socialists at WTTW are going to ignore the facts that CHI still leads the nation in yearly homicides and that someone is shot every six hours and killed every 20 hours in their third world utopia.