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Plaintiffs argue using the former school as a temporary shelter violates zoning laws and the terms of the lease between CPS and the city, which allowed the property to be used as a police and fire training center until 2028, attorney Frank Avila said. The respite center plans pose “a potential threat to the safety, property and overall well-being” of South Shore neighbors, according to the complaint.
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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Jesus would be proud of them. Good Christian values.
Jesus respected laws and rules – and promoted personal responsibility.
LOL, Christianity is NOT inclusive, not at all…
The black community gets exactly what they vote for in our country. More so than any other group.
Litigation is the only effective self-defense against modern corrupt government. Corrupt government can be defined as: ” non-uniform application/enforcement of law”. By this rationale, all victims of criminal assault/battery/theft/burglary/threat should file cheap boilerplate civil suits against City Of Chicago, State of Illinois, and the actual perpetrator. The perceived-violent perpetrators may or may not be collectible now, but may be in the future (if they are recipients of civil suit settlements themselves, for example). Chicago and Illinois seem to have vast public funds to pay for civil settlements in public violence incidents. But if Chicago/Illinois public coffers are significantly impacted by… Read more »
Winning in the court of public opinion is just as critical as winning in the court system. Any modern lawsuit needs a public relations campaign and strategy to be successful. Critical to this campaign is salience, mass communication channels, public support, promotional materials, moral high ground and more.
Yes, class action suits are one of the few remedies we have against regulator capture.
On a similar note, a property owner in Evanston is suing the owner of an awful drug and crime – infested homeless shelter adjacent to his property. It was a “last resort”, as the Evanston government libtards wants to make a nice nabe a “safe haven” for bums and grifters; this is what happens when Our Dear Leaders don’t listen. This shelter will no doubt be shut down: https://evanstonnow.com/neighbor-sues-margarita-owner/ Neighbor sues Margarita owner “The owner of the apartment building just north of the Margarita Inn homeless shelter has filed suit in circuit court claiming the shelter constitutes a public and… Read more »
Winning litigation depends on which judge you are assigned. An Obama or Biden judge? Forgetaboutit. A Trump judge? You got a chance.
Maybe, don’t we some cases where “my judges” didn’t rule accoding to former President Trump’s wishes? That puts a huge question mark upon your position.
This is an interesting article. Check out Abraham Lincoln’s warning. We are surely in troubled times only to get worse.
https://nccs.net/blogs/articles/strong-warnings-from-the-founders
Do you know the response we’d get if those were 45,000 MAGA Republicans streaming across the border every day?
Sorry, most of you get no sympathy from me because this is what you voted for. Total failure to understand the policies they’re voting for. I bet Biden got a lot of votes there too. Keep criticizing Abbot but it’s going to get worse until the Dem mayors start criticizing Biden. Where’s useless Duckworth and Durbin, what do they have to say, any of our local hard hitting reporters reach out to them for comment. One statement “criticized slow or nonexistent police responses” and then another “We allowed [the city] to have a police academy here. Most of us didn’t… Read more »
How can you assume that this is what they voted for? Did you not see the guy with the giant “Build The Wall 2024” sign in The Sun Times?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/5/23712507/south-shore-migrant-shelter-chicago-maga-nimby-editorial
Presidential results look pretty blue to me on the south side https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-viz-2020-election-precinct-map-20201202-dao2rj6u3bezxfvde2fmadzj6i-htmlstory.html
Looks like Johnson won there as well
https://interactive.wbez.org/chicago-2023-runoff-election-precinct-map/#mayor
I said most, I have sympathy for the ones that didn’t vote for the Brandons
The people protesting this are either crossing party lines or not Democrats!!!! LOLOL Have you ever thought about being a bit more welcoming? It’s pretty dumb to beat up people that align with you when you lack critical support for change. Tom Dart just flipped recently.
“The people protesting this are either crossing party lines or not Democrats!!!!”
LOL
Excellent!
Mayor Brandon should charter a fleet of buses and send the arriving “migrants” further on to Washington DC, to White House gates. Let the other Brandon figure it out.
How do IL Democrats justify spending billions on illegals when there are huge unmet needs of Illinois citizens?
Simple – those “illegals” are going to be future dem voters… the goal with the illegals is to create ever more numbers of a “dependent class”, which lives off of dem spending largesse… very similar to LBJ’s “Great Society” – look at the havoc that has been wreaked in the black community. They’ll never vote for anybody *but* dems, because they are afraid of losing all of their “benefits”…
They don’t. Nobody supports this except reckless politicians and their backers.
Only 25% of Russia supported the Bolsheviks in 1919, yet, it went commie for 70 years.
Racists.
All the stated goals are coming true. Easier to conquer the U.S. from within via division that militarily. And when you have tens of thousands of single military age males, including Chinese, coming across the border, make no mistake about what is really going to happen.
Kudos to whomever filed the lawsuit!
Stand up for your neighborhood.
Good for them. I support them. Everyone else here should too. Does anyone have a copy of the lawsuit?