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The number of passengers passing through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at O’Hare during the first seven months of the year remained at about 86% of pre-pandemic volumes, Chicago Department of Aviation data shows. The lagging traffic is a troubling trend for O’Hare, a key piece of the city’s economy and a hub in the nation’s air system.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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O’Hare Airport is a 3rd-world experience.
I actually liked O’Hare more in the ’70’s, when you had to work your way through flocks of bald kids wearing orange robes and ringing bells to get to the gate and board a flight where your coach ticket got you a better meal and a more comfortable seat than what passes for ‘first class’ now. Better behavior from passengers, too. I was in uniform, usually, when I travelled commercial back then. Class A’s required, nobody travelled commercial in fatigues. And other passengers weren’t deliberately dressing like bums, and acting like they were on their way to a Jerry Springer… Read more »
That reminds of the the movie Airplane. And don’t call me Shirley!!
Nothing to worry about. We could turn an entire terminal into housing for illegals. Someone call Abott and tell him to stop bussing them up here. The State of Illinous will pick them up in Caracas and fly them straight up here. Gee, I could have got the new Immigration job from BJ.
Sorry, you’re over qualified and work too hard. Those five sentences you typed is more work than BJ’s immigration czar will do all year.