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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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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See the May 20th article from GoBanking Rates/Yahoo–I’m a Real Estate Investor: Chicago Ranks among the 10 Places I Would Never Buy Property.
Good, honest, and affordable housing providers don’t want Chicago.
What about a kind 69-yr-old Rogers Park landlord named Francis Walker? She was brutally killed by a violent, mentally ill woman who needed to be evicted in order to protect other residents.
How many times did Walker call 911 in the days and hours before her murder?
Guess the legislators could care less about the crimes that tenants commit.
Correct spelling of first name is probably Frances.
Why doesn’t Illinois pass an anti-squatter bill?
Or why doesn’t Illinois pass laws that would make it easier for housing providers to evict drug dealers or violent tenants?
Agree with all you have said