If you’re frustrated with Illinois’ educational results, you may want to follow the money from teachers unions. In the last four years alone, Illinois lawmakers and political candidates have taken nearly $30 million in contributions from teachers unions and their national affiliates.
Lawmakers conveniently ignore the full impact of inflation when it comes to ordinary Illinoisans. Take the personal exemption on the state income tax. For tax year 2023, the exemption will not rise with inflation as it should under current law. And that means a higher tax bill for everyone.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski testified on April 10, 2024 to members of the House Revenue and Finance Committee at the invitation of Rep. Joe Sosnowski. Ted told lawmakers that the state’s property tax burden has become dire for countless Illinoisans.
Ted joined WLS 890’s PM Chicago Show to discuss Chicago’s worsening pension crisis, why the city’s crisis makes it such an outlier nationally, its negative impact on residents, government workers and retirees alike, and what Mayor Brandon Johnson should do about it.
When has any company persisted with a project in the face of stronger local, statewide and national opposition? When have taxpayers subsidized a more harebrained project?
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Roughly 2,800 shootings in Chicago this year. Is it possible any of those were committed by someone released on affordable bail? Or did they promise to behave when they were let out on affordable bail.
The CWB article illustrates the loopholes well. As to the ytd totals, here are some figure from the Hey Jackass website. Year to Date totals as of September 8, 2020 @ 7:08 am: Shot & Killed: 495. Shot & Wounded: 2,414. Total Shot: 2,909. Total Homicides: 541. Now for the City of Chicago summer 2020 sub-totals (Memorial Day through Labor Day). “Labor Day weekend means it’s time to draw the curtain on another mostly peaceful Summer Shooting Season. Since opening day on Friday, May 22nd, we’ve tallied 342 homicides plus over 1600 shot & wounded. Last year’s Summer Shooting Season… Read more »
Hey Jackass updated its annual City of Chicago summer (Memorial Day through Labor Day) killed and wounded figures.
99% increase in those killed (172 in 2019, 342 in 2020).
81% increase in those wounded (890 in 2019, 1,607 in 2020).
Of the 342 killed in 2020, there were 285 Blacks, 47 Hispanics, and 9 Whites.
The sub-totals add to 341, so perhaps one was Asian or an Indigenous People?
Regardless that is 83% black, 14% Hispanic, 3% White.
https://heyjackass.com/enlightening-commentary/summer-lovin-6
Thus the BLM movement coincided with a huge increase of blacks killed in the City of Chicago.