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In a move that could affect Northwestern University’s plans to renovate its football stadium, the city of Evanston has asked a judge to remove the stadium’s parking lot from consideration by a special committee that debates disputes over the school’s land use. “It calls into question, whose side is the city on?” resident Dave DeCarlo said.
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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A resident actually asked which side the city is on? Has s/he been unconscious or what?
Parking and traffic objections alone will sink this project.