“I think the attraction to these kids are the sports cars,” a Valparaiso mother said. “They think it’s fun when police show up, so they take off and get chased. ... My son is 19, so there’s nothing I can do, honestly. If I say don’t go, he’s going to anyway. If I kick him out of my house over it, I’d be a mess worrying if he’s OK, where he’s staying, and would he ever forgive me.”
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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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