Given where Chicago is right now this new stadium proposal is a bad idea and a bad deal – Wirepoints on The Chicago Way with John Kass
April 25, 2024
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Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Chicago’s latest bond offering, why Chicago’s dismal home value growth is due to poor policies, the next $70 million to be spent on migrants, the 9% salary hikes demanded by the CTU, and why Illinois lawmakers voting to stop Chicago’s selective enrollment schools from being closed is hypocritical.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/21/2024.
“We started talking to people about rent control and finding that they actually really supported it” they also supported Pritzker, just shows how smart your average city voter is. Rent control is not the solution. One good effect of rent control is it will limit housing which hopefully will keep more of these wackos from moving in.
There’s so much rhetoric around the ‘socialism’ issue; but in reality, the ‘socialism’ label is nothing more than free giveaways in exchange for power. Voters who vote for socialists who promise them free stuff. At least Republicans are voting for tax cuts – which is letting the voter keep more of their own money. And the wall is a policy issue. But the socialist pandering is “I will give you free housing” and “I will give you free health care” and “I will give you free immigration advice” and so on and so on. The hard part they have is… Read more »