It’s good that murder is down in Chicago, but other major crimes are way up – Wirepoints on with WJOL’s Scott Slocum

Ted joined Scott Slocum of WJOL to talk about the spin on crime Illinoisans can expect as we head into 2024, the fact that Chicago remains the nation’s murder capital, the easy calculus of a Chicago criminal, why Illinoisans continue to move out to less-costly states, and more.

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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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