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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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Lori is totally indebted to phony Casino operator Bluhm who donated to her. He will put his casino wherever he pleases and Chicago will pay whatever this thief wants.
I’ve never understood the attraction to gambling unless you can effect the outcome. A golf game where you are a participant, your skill can determine the outcome. I’ve known mathematicians and individuals who meticulously study player performance statistics who win. Having traveled to Las Vegas for business meetings, the clientele appeared mostly as overweight shtbgs. I can imagine the caliber Chicago gamblers.
It’s like Jim McKay’s intro. The thrill of victory the agony of defeat. The latter is never publicized but the former is promoted.
I have gone to a few race tracks in Ohio/Penn/WV where a casino is connected. Customers seems to be very skewed to old retired people. I am guessing nothing to do all day, so sit around feeding the slots.
Oh! Race tracks are pure entertainment. People running to the window to get a bet down! Running to lose money! I casually worked for one of the biggest bookies in Cook County in the late 60’s. I’d just do menial assignments like standing on lower Michigan and Illinois to await the daily scratch sheets. We worked out of the Tribune building. He laughed up his sleeve at the chumps. He had a nice home in Lincolnwood. His neighbor was the U. S. attorney.