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.
I’d love to see a Bears and sports entertainment complex. But in reality, it’s probably going to be another Toll Brothers mixed-use McMansion community like the Glen. Those lefties in Arl. Hts. (and it’s full of lefties now) love themselves McMansions while virtue signaling all of their abhorent, degenerate values.