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Chicago news outlets have published and aired seemingly endless images and videos from inside the South Shore apartment building raided by federal immigration agents this week. You’ve undoubtedly seen them: doors hanging open, apartments torn apart, and hallways left in disarray after the feds left. What the outlets haven’t shared is what the building looked like before the raid.
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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Based on these videos where were Chicago and Cook County building and health inspectors before this raid? It seems to me this buildinding was both a health and safety mess long before the feds arrived.
Chicago media likes to make up stories where there are none.
Once again, citizen reporters for the win. There is a difference between being uninformed and being stupid. This proves being uninformed at least can be fixed.
Damn shame that Maduro’s honor students never lasted long enough to open an empanada stand on 79th Street!
How did Venezuelan migrants end up in an African American ghetto? I worked as a real estate appraiser in Chicago for 30 years. There were no Spanish speakers in that hood when I was working.
You’ll never see an honest investigation by a “REPORTER ? “ from the times or Trib. All are woke and just type/ print WVAT THEY ARE TOLD TO SAY . HAVE KEEP PUSHING THE DEMOCRATS NARRATIVE.
Typical Trib and Times . As long as you are under the dem control your journalistic credibility is zero. Stick with your fluff pieces. In real news your worthless