Lake Michigan Wind Farm Plan Moves Forward After House Approves ‘Rust Belt To Green Belt’ Fund – Block Club Chicago

The 186-page bill wouldn’t guarantee the wind farm’s construction, but it would enable the state to apply for federal infrastructure funds. The bill that passed the House requires the developer to reach at least one community benefits agreement with local organizations and ensures jobs generated from the project go to Black and Brown residents of the community in which it’s built, state Rep. Marcus Evans said.

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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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