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"In some ways, the Yale-trained pediatrician is beginning the year the way she ended the last one: leading the city through an ongoing pandemic. But she’s also capitalizing on the audience she’s built during her regular COVID-19 messages to try and tackle the city’s persistent mental health crisis, which is at the root of so many other issues, from homelessness to violence."
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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.
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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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