Mark joined Dan Proft to paint a grim picture of Illinois’ financial trajectory, focusing particularly on the state’s spiraling property taxes, unsustainable public spending, and a lack of political accountability.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Broken Chicago public safety pension math: Just $6 B in assets for $68 B in payouts
- Chicago pension sweeteners: Threatening public safety retirement security, soaking future Chicagoans
- Chicago’s weak luxury real estate market goes beyond Ken Griffin
- Chicago property taxes rise 3.5 times faster than inflation in last decade
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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.
I used to live in the south burbs and it’s the same story as elsewhere. Woke policy, woke zoning, woke businesses, woke politicians, woke bars and restaurants, woke EVERYTHING. Woke destroyed a once great region. Moving away to Washington was the smartest decision I ever made. Woke is suicide.
Most of da Southland has up and moved to Indiana.
Thank Mikey “I am not a crook” Madigan and his Illinois public sector union stooges for this disaster.
😳😳😳 Don’t forget that Obama represented the south suburbs at the state and National level 😒😏 before his PRESIDENCY. Just drive West on Lincoln highway/ Route 30 🥲🥲🥲
Detroit used to be the cats meow too!
The Chicago area is in a decline and has not hit bottom yet. Worse is still to come and it will spread all over the state. Illinois is taxing away the population, the public sector has taken too large of slice of the economic pie, so the private sector is leaving in record numbers. The pension hangover will last generations.
Short of federal intervention to void all public union contracts and pensions or allowing some sort of state bankruptcy, the state is DOOMED.
Tend to agree. It seems very unlikely the Dems will do anything significant to slow down this runaway train.