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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about how Chicago crime has grown nearly 60 percent compared to 2019, how more criminals are roaming the streets due to no-cash-bail coming into effect, how a Michigan township recalled its entire local government that supported a Gotion deal similar to that in Illinois, why New Trier Neighbors sponsored a discussion on trans issues that impact lives on the North Shore and beyond, and more.
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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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Hard to believe. Young adults with no education and job skills and no jobs. Add zero crime enforcement and crime is going up? You would think that this was the plan. Only going to get worse, much worse.
Don’t believe what you see or unfortunately, may have personally experienced. Everything is just fine in your progressive/ socialist/ Dem “ re-imagined “ America. Da.
Truth/facts no longer relevant to progressive politicians and progressive media. “Woke” political agenda, and its narrative storyline, require facts to be manipulated to match Alice in Wonderland alternative truths.
Mayor BJ administration seems hell-bent to create a woke utopia in Chicago, not realizing that by these progressive policies, new taxes, and DEI-driven administrative appointments lead Chicago directly into Detroit-levels of disinvestment and depopulation.
Crains Chicago many years ago printed article comparing Chicago to Detroit, to pointedly conclude Chicago would decline into Detroit’s twin within 20 years. We’re right on schedule.
I traveled to Detroit on business in the early
80’s. It was a mini Chicago, great restaurants
Good airport and a fun city. That slowly ended
By the mid 90’s. You are correct we are on the schedule to end a former great city.
As I watched Detroit go downhill the same is happening in Chicago, no amount of bull….
Will change that.
It is taking longer ONLY because of the size
Difference between the two.