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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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The 2016 Dolton police chase stemmed from a traffic violation after the Kyles’ and Dunlap’s car skidded through a stop sign. Police chased the vehicle for about a mile until the vehicle crashed into a building.
You run from the police, get injured, and it’s the police’s fault? Is that how it reads?
Lots of money spent by the previous corrupt mayor Henhouse at the local nail salon and wig shop.
And this is how places become the third world. Rogue jury verdicts comprised of anti-police activists should not bankrupt municipalities and their residents. Completely insane the Illinois Supreme Court looks at this situation and says “Yup, no civil immunity here. Screw over the entire town, residents, taxpayers and the state. This is OK.” No sane first world country allows this kind of nonsense.
Not being able to afford your bills, check.
cannot pay court judgements, check.
plantiff attorneys forcing bonds to obtain
judgements, check. People leaving in droves,
check. Repeat, check.
replace Dolton with Chicago, checkmate.
Bankruptcy NOW!
Illinois doesn’t allow cities to go bankrupt.