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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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Just because city got political blow back from black community when they proposed turning South Shore HS into ‘new arrival’ migrant housing, the fact is the city has tons of space at already functioning empty or 1/2 empty
CPSCTU schools mostly in black community 100% ready to go. And CTU’s 100% behind welcoming the ‘new arrival’ migrants, so where’s CTU demanding opening theCPSCTU schools in black community???Instead, in my NW side hood, the city wants to cram a giant permanent migrant shelter into already crowded situation and are neighborhood
CPSCTU schools are already overcrowded…CRAZY!!It’s because your city leaders see migrants as punishment. BJ and his crew believe, that for too many years, white areas of the city have had preferential treatment, while the rest of the city has been neglected. Like all communists, they believe they are spreading out the pain to everyone, and it’s about time you, northwest side resident, you need to feel the pain the rest of the city has felt for decades, since your racist ancestors lynched south siders during the Red Summer. This is only the beginning of your people’s comeuppance, and there’s much more to come: migrants,… Read more »
your analysis is way over the top for me.
On the flip side, in very-very exclusive fly under the radar parts of the city–Suaganash, Edgebrook, Forest Glen where so many city, cc and state high-ups live, and jokers like me could never afford, there’s not a bats chance in hell your going to get a migrant shelter let alone homeless shelter or affordable housing. Same thing/issue to a lesser extent in heavily city employee populated Edison Park/ Jefferson Park areas.
You’re not listening to what they are saying. You must listen to them: Toni Preckwinkle said this last year to a Tribune board (they endorsed her anyways)… Editorial: Toni Preckwinkle for Cook County Board president “First, the downside. When we brought up the now-pervasive fear of violent crime in Chicago during our conversation, and the possible impact of legislation eliminating cash bail, Preckwinkle made the point that residents in more affluent neighborhoods are now getting a taste of what it has been like to live in the Chicago ZIP codes that have heard gunfire and feared carjackings for years. She… Read more »
Lori Lightfoot said in a televised speech in 2020 during the riots to the effect that the 1919 virus aka the Red Summer was the cause of the 2020 riots and she understood that them kids were just blowing off steam. “…It is indeed about laQuan McDonald and quintonio legrier and Rekia Boyd and Jon Burge and if we’re honest it goes back to at least as far as the red summer in 1919 and many other events before and since it’s about a fear that I must confess I still feel when I think about how the world was… Read more »
Again, another article, I can’t find, been scrubbed from internet, is where the Deputy police superintendent, in 2021, when discussing crime with downtown building owners, mocks them. He said something along the lines that Karen or Becky from Lisle hasn’t been downtown in a year and is complaining about crime, and downtown crime is really just a fraction of what the rest of the city experiences, so it’s really no big deal.
As for affordable housing? You apparently haven’t been following the drama of alderman Jim Gardier, the Jefferson Park alderman. He was elected on a platform of fighting affordable housing in Jefferson Park, which according to the rest of Chicago, makes him a horrible vile facist racist republican. The FBI decided that his stance against affordable housing was so terrible, so awful, they needed to WIRETAP his phones, using the pretext of baseless bribery allegations. They tapped his phones for years, they’re probably still tapped for all we know, and they found nothing. The same FBI that leaked a fake story… Read more »
Edgebrook, Sauganash, Wildwood, they are not immune. Vallas won those neighborhoods by 40, 50 points, even more up in Edison Park with going 90 to 10 for Vallas. Do you think Brandon is going to let these people off that easy just because some old school rich machine Democrats live there? LOL I guarantee you Brandon’s administration will target these neighborhoods sooner, rather than later, with fewer police, higher taxes, reduced city services, and soon enough, plenty of migrants. https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/04/05/map-heres-how-your-neighborhood-voted-in-the-2023-chicago-mayoral-election-2/ In fact, there are already hundreds of migrants in a hotel in Oriole Park, the Holiday Inn on Cumberland. Completely… Read more »
I’m aware of all the stories, a lot of other NW side hotels as well are being leased out by city especially along Lincoln ave. Sorry, but I still don’t see any possibility all those fancy folks in Sauganash are going to allow a giant migrant shelter their community. And your a NW side resident?
I live in the suburbs of Cook County, not gonna say north or west or south
Find another dumping ground for asylum fraudsters
I’ve got some bad news for you JCat. Progressives (think Rham, Groot and now BJ) hate cops and this just one more way to stick it to you and your fellow cops.
I’m waiting for a drug resistant TB outbreak at precinct. If you’re members get sick well that’s the price of public service….
Progressives do care about their own security though and it baffled me how Lori received so much on the taxpayers dime.