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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.
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.
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While I’d enjoy granting JB the Hutt the credit for the SWA layoffs, they were, in fact, more of an admission of SWA’s failure to gain any traction at their O’Hare destination. I questioned their move to O’Hare back in 2021, thinking that Midway was serving them just fine as that airport always has.
However, the rest of the WARNed soon to be ex-employees can thank the disastrous “leadership’ of the Trust-Fund-Baby-in-Chief of Illinois.