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As Chicago’s City Council enters its 100th year under its modern form, some alderpersons, good government advocates and political science experts say that despite incremental progress, the City Council still has institutional inertia to overcome before it can operate independently from the historical grip the mayor’s office has held. Proposals include everything from altering the council’s structure, more robustly staffing fiscal and legislative agencies to a wholesale reset on Chicago’s municipal governance by codifying reforms in a city charter.
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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Guv Pigchop hates Illinois and doesn’t care about an independent city council. He wears a man girdle to keep his massive gut under control!
A federal racketeering probe would be the best way to fix City Council