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Under the proposal submitted to the state by Township Supervisor Angel Contreras, Joliet Township would create three migrant centers and one clinic to care for roughly 1,900 migrants. Now, community members are calling on Joliet Township to reject the $8.6 million awarded by the State of Illinois.
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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Stand strong, Joliet!
After the grant money runs out, your township (taxpayers) will be on the hook to accommodate the invaders in perpetuity.
Reject the money and tell Pritzker to shove the money where the sun don’t shine.
Wokeness has already started to decline every town across Illinois. Any suburb stupid enough to agree to formally house illegal immigrants needs to understand this will be a permanent situation that will accelerate the decline of their town exponentially. There will be no going back.
Outside of Chicago and a few lib-tard suburbs, the rest of IL has zero interest in being a dumping ground for Chicago’s illegals