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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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The abolition of single family housing, and local zoning laws, has been the fever dream of progressives for decades now. They honestly believe the burning down all the single family homes and replacing them with six-flats near public transit would magically solve most of society’s problems. They don’t care that their laboratory test case – Minneapolis – abolished single family zoning in 2020, and it caused new housing permits to plummet 90% from 2019 levels. The abolition of single family housing is a particular belief within the progressives’ larger ideological framework. They believe they can change the world around them… Read more »
Fascist Illinois
Central control vs local control. Sounds like PURE Communism to me.
Illinois, not a state run under the umbrella of a Constitutional Republic and and the rule of law, rather, taken over by Communist politicians and Unions.
Pritzger is a disgrace nobody cares about that jerk outside IL good luck getting rid of him IL has him for life.