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“This site is not suitable for its current use as a migrant shelter,” Ald. Brian Hopkins said. “Its location in the Central Business District is inappropriate. It is one block away from the vital economic engine that is Michigan Avenue and within feet of multiple downtown hotels that we need to keep filled with visitors to our city.” Housing 1,530 migrants as of September 22, the Inn of Chicago site at 162 East Ohio is the single largest migrant shelter in the city.
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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Racism at work here.
If the migrants were from Israel would the reaction be the same?
If the migrants were from Ukraine would the reaction be the same?
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