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.
The Alvarez shooting was a block and a half from my house. Alvarez was running around this residential area with a gun in his hand in the middle of the night, but Lightfoot wants to know why peace officers shot him? How would the Mayor have felt if the perp had been on her own front doorstep? I’m glad the police took him out, one less ******* terrorizing the neighborhood. The media cries that he was a good guy and had kids. Great dad, running around streets with a gun in the middle of the night. The police officer did… Read more »