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The largest of the city’s existing shelters is the Inn of Chicago, at 162 E. Ohio St., with 1,398 migrants. That is followed by the former Standard Club in the South Loop (1,084); shuttered Wadsworth Elementary School (588); Daley College (415); Wright College (383); Piotrowski Park (200); Brands Park (144); North Park Village (125); YMCA in Douglas (248) and YMCA in West Ridge (148).
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.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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I am certain they will be ‘sheltered’ in the most affluent areas that vote for Democrats.
remember the dire “end of the world” predictions when the former schools were closed? See it wasn’t the end of the world folks but rather the dawn of the new world of illegal immigrants replacing your children. Thank you Governor Pritzker and lets remember him when he runs for President.
That is all.
Soon all of Chicago will be a border jumper shelter.
The ‘pie of taxpayer handouts’ has to be cut into thinner slices now.
This is what the sanctuary city shit-heads asked for — ENJOY!
They are criminal illegal immigrants. Deport them. If you are a black voter who has always supported Democrats these folks are your replacements. You’ve been suckered.
Some people have to earn things the hard way.
More like some people will never learn