CTU’s credibility questioned in Springfield as its biggest ally, Mayor Brandon Johnson, heads to state Capitol – Chicago Tribune/MSN

A longtime Democratic lawmaker said of CTU that “clearly they lack credibility, but they don’t need it because they use intimidation. ... Nobody’s telling them to stop it.” The lawmaker asked not to be identified so they could speak candidly about the union’s tactics without retribution.

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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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