Editorial: Goodbye, Speaker Madigan. Now what, Democrats? – Chicago Tribune*

"For a state that has lost roughly 250,000 residents during the last 10 years; for a state that is shrinking while every one of its border states grows; for a state whose voters are fed up with politics and power constantly superseding needed change, Welch could spring us forward at this crucial moment."
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Fed up neighbor
5 years ago

Nothing business as usual corruption shall prevail all my corrupt politicians

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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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