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As the Grant Park Framework Plan is updated by the Park District, some worry the softball fields could be erased altogether. “We’re being shut down because the park district is more interested in generating revenue than they are about keeping traditions that have been going on in the park for almost 100 years now,” 34-year league veteran Michael Stern said. “I hope I’m wrong. But until I see it, I’m not convinced that we will be playing softball at Grand Park ever again.”
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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Hmm, aren’t most of those softball players white males?
I read the story and while I feel bad for the league players, let’s be blunt: If you’re not putting money into the Democratic Kitty in Chicago, nobody cares.
Grant Park Softball might be the only thing that brings people downtown anymore
Accommodations must be made for Lori’s pet projects.street racing as if we need more side shows. Sounds like a few fatalities on south Halsted! The city and police are paralyzed! The racers just appear as if by dark magic.