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The new money, which comes from an Illinois Department of Human Services surplus, will be broken down into programs aimed at fixing a process that has left thousands of migrants sleeping at makeshift, temporary locations, such as police stations. The state will provide $65 million for a winterized tent shelter site where up to 2,000 migrants can stay for as long as 6 months; $30 million to help set up a migrant intake center; and $65 million for legal and other support services.
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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Sickening! While the Illinois General Assembly signaled it would not vote on more migrant funding this year, Pritzker found funds within the Department of Human Services, which he says has a budget for wraparound services “for people living in the state of Illinois.” “We’re being forced to try and solve a federal-sized problem at the state and local levels. Every day we contend with impossible choices about how to use already scarce resources,” Pritzker said at a press conference Thursday. How it works: Pritzker says the funding is aimed at “welcome, shelter and independence,” earmarking: $30 million for more workers to greet new… Read more »
who downvotes this, really?
I can see some of my relatives who still live in Chicago downvoting the sensible questions and legitimate complaints voiced here. Not because they are ignorant or too out of it to realize how far down hill the area has fallen but because they’re angry at those of us who left and blame us for the changes they’ve endured.
Anger plays a huge roll in Chicago/Cook County life!
Looks like panic is starting to set in from CTU/Brandon to Toni to JB with dem convention just around the corner….how all this spending on Venezuelans is going to go over with the “systemically disinvested” will be some interesting politics.
But But But-some are going back to Venezuela. So where will the money go when they leave?
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-11-16-venezuelan-migrant-family-regrets-coming-to-us.html
Pritzker and the Springfield clown show will divert (steal) the money from somewhere else, most likely from senior’s.
The assessed value of my home just doubled with the quadrennial reassessment. The money for the invaders will come from taxpayers as it always does.
Mine doubled also out here in Will county my thinking is that since the homestead deduction went from 6,000 to 8,000 and the senior exemption went from 5,000 to 8,000 for the 2023 tax year due in 2024 these brainwashed assessors had to make up the lose in tax dollars by raising our assessed valuation thru the roof.
We had an extra $160 million just sitting around that we can now give away to illegals? I have questions…..
You should question how San Francisco magically cleaned up their streets in a week, too! Over a billion dollars has been invested in their homeless / crime problem with no results until last week.
https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/15/san-francisco-cleaned-up-for-apec-see-before-and-after-photos/
https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/14/city-clears-homeless-encampments-apec/
Notice we have one little Left Wing Troll who does not like intelligent comments.
That’s for the reason for the TD on your comment.