Cook County Prosecutors Looking to Add New Specialist Role Amid Growing Number of Hate Crime Reports – WTTW (Chicago)

According to Chicago Police Department data, there were 302 hate crimes recorded in the city in 2023. That marked a 48 percent spike over the previous year’s total and represented the most hate crimes recorded in any single year in Chicago since at least 2012. Already there have been 90 hate crimes in Chicago reported in 2024.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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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