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The city kept 126 beds but isn’t using them. The state has 1,125 more beds from the makeshift hospital but says the city hasn’t asked for them. And the city is missing out on $30 million from Springfield to support migrants. Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez said he condemns the Republican governors in Texas and Florida for busing people to Illinois, "(b)ut we have not seen leadership from Illinois to secure resources that are available to respond to this real crisis.”
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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Can we find an old cruise ship to dock at Navy Pier & use it as housing…?
What a waste that was. Someone profited handsomely.
McCormick Place would be the perfect location to house the new residents of the Welcoming City of Chicago. There aren’t any more trade shows going there anyway.
Sad but true. Once upon a time it was a convention hot spot. Thanks Dem pols.
I was a millwright there for a number of shows back in it’s heyday. A great gig.
AlderComunist Lopez needs to blame Biden’s Open Border for shitting Chicago’s bed