The more troubling that the fiscal situation in Illinois becomes, the less levelheaded local officials sound about facing up to their problems. That was evident last week, in the reaction that incoming governor Jay Pritzker and several Chicago mayoral candidates had to a speech by outgoing Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel on the state’s deep pension problems.
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NB-Chicago
7 years ago

astoundingly vallas is the only candidate that even talks about pensions . all the other candidates are going to magically promise everything to everybody by somehow redistributing the ever dwindling pot of gold (or carrying on the rahm snake oil salesman tricks).

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