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Asked whether the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Alliance might use this case to go after other cities, counties or villages, CEO Mike Sturino suggested they didn’t need to. “Everyone we’ve looked at from city of Chicago to townships downstate have been in complete compliance. No one has attempted to thumb their nose the way Cook County has done.”
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Someone please mention to CEO Mike Sturino, that Chicago is part of Cook County.
Expect Cook County and Chicago to pull more and more shenanigans like this as it becomes harder to raise taxes on those who can pay them.
It wasn’t misspent, it went where it was intended to go. Political pockets.
Now how about suing the state for robbing funds from the road and bridge lockbox, and from not distributing the funds so they can skim the interest.
Didn’t Pritzker take money from the road fund to pay for state employee health care?
Nope to help the CTU CONTRACT . Wait in six months TOLLS INCREASE to cover part of the contract
I thought it was to bail out the CTA
Another $137 million was taken from the Road Fund to cover state employee health benefits. State leaders said the move complies with provisions that allow the Road Fund to be used for payments towards “expenses related to workers’ compensation claims for death or injury,” including health care.