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“In our most recent history, the city saw the closure of predominantly Black schools where 1,000 Black children are still missing as a result of that horrific act. Two hundred twenty-three of them were West Siders,” he told the crowd before the Juneteenth flag was raised in Daley Plaza. “As we continue to see stores close, residents being forced out of the West and South sides of Chicago, fewer [have] access to options like heathy food and medicine and other necessities. Make no mistake about it, Chicago. We still have work to do.”
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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Burge was a bad man who violated civil rights with impunity. But you have to understand the context of Burge. John was a Chicago version of Dirty Harry, taking the law into his own hands. The 1970’s when Burge was violating residents civil rights was an *extremely* violent time in Chicago, far more violent than it was today, spread out all over the city. Chicago had 970 murders in 1974, and that grim record has not been broken, not even during the infamous summer of love. Chicago in 1965 had less than 400 murders but had more than doubled by… Read more »
Which makes it even all the more crazy that he wants a memorial to John Burge’s victims…John Burge never killed anyone (wrongfully tortured, yes, but killed, no). But there’s no memorials to the thousands, yes thousands, of people that died during chicago’s violent 1970’s crime wave. Look at the chart below to see the context – the mid to late 1960’s were really low crime, with less than 400 murders for 3,500,000 people. By the late 1970’s, Chicago had 900 murders a year and only 3,000,000 people. Talk about a radical shift in less than a decade. Nothing from this… Read more »
Presently, astronomical taxation to pay for crappy services provided by guaranteed upper-income public sec heroes who don’t live in B & B neighborhoods could never ever, never be part of the legacy of racist community dis-investment for machine equity hustler/ carpetbaggers like CTU/Brandon, Stacy, Jessy, Toni, etc with their guaranteed $multi-millionaire$ deals. It’s only appropriate to blame racial equity gap on ancient history for those in the machine still bilking the present. CTU/Brandon didn’t even live in Chicago when Burge was around. Wake up–your city, cc, state government are the community dis-investers by light years. And handing out Guaranteed Income/… Read more »
Precisely this.
“the city saw the closure of predominantly Black schools where 1,000 Black children are still missing as a result of that horrific act”
Schools close when there aren’t enough students to justify keeping them open. It’s not a racist conspiracy, it’s a fact of life and it happens in every city and suburb. And these black children haven’t gone “missing”, their parents either failed to enroll them in another Chicago public school or more likely, the families moved to the suburbs or out of IL altogether.
As long as the so called Black community continues to ask what the government is going to do for them as opposed to what they can do to help themselves and their community, nothing will change.
He’s embraced the demagogic ways of Obama, always fighting straw-men. Who are these residence being forced out of the South and West sides? Who’s forcing them out? What does it look like in practice?
Just like round boy Pritzker , Johnson would have to admit that socialism is a failure . and he will never do that.