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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.
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.
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“While it is possible for thousands of people to move to Illinois at once…” – Conor Brown, CEO NorthWest Illinois Alliance of Realtors Jim Hagerty provides us yet another reason to think that journalism grads eschew tough classes like economics and business administration in favor of Political Science and English Lit classes and smoking dope in the quad. Critical thinking skills are absent from the newsroom all too often. Such is the case here once again. Illinois bleeds taxpayers every year to the point of losing House seats and Electoral College electors. With a straight face, Jim regurgitates Conor Brown’s… Read more »
This is the kind of article that causes people not to trust the media. We’re one week out from the election and suddenly there’s a stampede of people wanting to live in Illinois? It is absolutely ludicrous to suggest that any real estate trend is due to people wanting to live in Illinois for political reasons. Is Conor on JB’s payroll?
Only a half wit would move to IL for anything other than JB’s liberal grab bag. Dems businesses will soon be Dem free bread line walkers after a few years of JB’s Marxist anti- business policies.
Realtor Conor Brown says there aren’t enough existing homes to accommodate the demand from folks moving to Illinois for political reasons. I wonder what happened to the homes vacated by folks moving away, who in recent years far exceed in-migrants.
One word, bullsh-t