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“On the issue of birds alone, a stadium of this scale and design would have dire implications for the Chicago stretch of one of the world’s major migratory flyways, where countless birds die each year because of the glass facade at McCormick Place East to the south,” conservation organization Openlands said.
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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Just call it the Obama Presidential Sports Complex Extension and all objections will go away.
The magic Obama name vaporized all objections to his building his edifice to himself on what was publicly funded park district land.
True
This stadium will never happen. Too expensive. Way too much infrastructure cost to be borne by government bodies that are broke. And way too much litigation coming from park and open land supporters. Another big stadium fumble by the Bears– number five is it?
The bears can go to St Louis they have a stadium, the white Sox can go wherever
They stink.