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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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Are these the same mopes who’ll replace all the lead waterlines? Their timelines are similar. Is there dark sorcery involved in water fountains? Children are thirsty! Children are crying, so is mom! The timeline is required by most employees refusing assignments without police coverage! Who do they think they are? Firemen? What would Little Dirk Do?