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 26, 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.
Side note. This is some new info on a mass shooting.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/multiple-people-found-shot-dead-212900773.html
They can’t punishing you for failing to register your gun is quite the lawyerly position, because now it is illegal to own the gun.
Illinois State police are already refusing to enforce the law(Act). Pritzker responds by saying, “You will do your job, or you won’t have a job.” Trying to hire illegal aliens for police is not working either, with State police stating almost all of them will fail a background check. Flailing and desperate.
The ISP might not enforce the Act but my local prosecutor in Cook and/or Lake is salivating at the opportunity to do so, and that’s 6.5 million of the state’s 13 million residents.
Judicial clowns request another 6 months to decipher the meaning of “shall not be infringed”. What a circus.