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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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Wow, 20% YoY increase on first half for my old condo. Painful, and this doesn’t make it worth more since people only have so much to spend on a mortgage.
Gosh, why can’t they just forget about me like they so the rest of the time?
Dems trying to get tax bills released after the primaries. Property tax raised dont look good for Democrats.
That ace reporting by the Tribune completely missed that Tyler has gone on record saying that Maria Pappas’s office did not do the work they were supposed to do which also led to further delays in tax bills getting sent out on time. Also, no follow up questions to Maria Pappas regarding as to when the balance of the fall collections were going to be distributed, have they been able to use the new system to distribute the funds and will the spring collections be distributed with the new system if the new system is not currently used to distribute… Read more »
Taxwinkle was stuttering and blubbering on tv and could only manage a “ I’m a non-Trumper “ defense even though being handled gently. I doubt Granny will get the heave ho, but she sure is sweating like it.