Illinois sports bettors break monthly state record – Center Square

Joe Boozell with PlayIllinois.com said the calendar played a part. “There were five weekends of football, which usually there are four,” Boozell said. “Football is the most popular sport to bet on in the fall so I think it juiced it in every state.” Only New Jersey and Nevada took in more wagers.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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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