Editorial: The good, the bad and the pointless from the Chicago Financial Future Task Force – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

"Chicago has an annual personnel budget well in excess of $4 billion, and it hired permanent employees with temporary federal money that was designed to provide COVID relief. Those workers now have ballooned the city’s workforce in size without raising any more revenue or delivering incrementally more (or better) services. Making any kind of inroads into the budget hole will require a smaller city government. Period. Freezing some vacant positions won’t do the trick. This is all going to take some courage."