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“It is often the case that people who have been in prison before but served their time and may have been in gangs before who are growing older are actually some of the best people to have deterring people from joining gangs and from being involved in violence in their communities,” Gov. JB Pritzker said.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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“No way to vet everybody” has been the mantra for Democrats for the past 4 years. It is sweet irony the guy happened to be a felon – just like the ones that sneak into our country and JB dismisses as “taxpaying” community members.
No way to vet anybody when you don’t try.
What a joke. It is Ok to take $350M of tax payer dollars and dream up a pROgram to waste it on, but there is no way to determine whether the people getting paid by the program are not criminals? Good God what an absolute circus and embarrassment the state of Illinois is.
Joe Biden’s thoughts exactly. That’s why he/they let how many criminal illegals into this country.