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In all, the shelters will be able to house as many as 2,200 migrants, officials said. Construction on both shelters is set to start this week, and the first people could move in as soon as next week, officials said. Beds at the new shelters will be prioritized for families and individuals with disabilities who are currently sleeping outdoors, at police stations and at O’Hare, state officials said.
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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Let the ambulance-chasing personal injury attorneys ready themselves for gold-mine of medical claims for migrant-residents, who will have been “intentionally exposed to toxic waste from unmitigated contaminated ground-soils of Brownfield site of former asphalt plant industrial operation”.
Textbook example of how not to chose a site for institutional-residential habitation.
65M for a plot of dirt and temporary chattels owned by cronies when the City of Chicago owns countless vacant properties that could easily substitute. What a joke!
Payback for Sanchez’s prison time. The guy kept silent, knows where the bodies are buried.
Not sure if it’s really Sanchez behind it. I think the Second City Cop post was mostly satire; the goal being to inspire somebody to actually get out there and connect the dots. Again, it’s a scandal on top of a scandal on top of a scandal. It’s Fraudception if you’ve seen the DiCaprio movie Inception. LOL
Make that 4 levels of fraud if class action attorneys get a payout from toxic metals present in the soil. WOW
Does anyone remember if their parents/grandparents who came thru Ellis Island from Europe if they were put in shelters? There were way more of them then all the jumpers Chicago has now. They needed sponsors and received jobs for at least 6 months. How many tens of thousands emigrated to Chicago and other cities and built the foundation of what was known as a great city? Many were skilled trades people and if not learned quickly. Now people are put in shuttered Jewel grocery stores/police stations/tent cities. What a shame Chicago and Illinois has become. What’s next for them? Housing… Read more »
The answer is that vast majority of most of the tens of millions of illegals coming here are disappearing in their own mostly parallel and underground societies in places like Waukegan, Wheeling, and Worth, etc… communities forever changed, like that commenter here who was the only native at the mexican rodeo in romeoville… This is similar to what happened with immigrants in the 1860-1914 period except that they relied more upon the Catholic church and other community organizations and ethnic owned businesses. The Czechs handled brewing, the germans were construction IIRC, the polish did other things…And also, millions of those… Read more »
I’ve been trying to motivate the Venezueleans for months. I can’t even get them to hang flyers and rake leaves.
My grandmother and grandfather came here from Italy through Ellis Island. My grandfather’s friend had a job for him and a place to stay. That was in Brooklyn, then they went to Pittsburgh, then Cleveland and finally Chicago. My grandfather was a carpenter and he worked on trucks, back then the back part was made of wood. My grandmother worked at Seeburg and soldered boards used in jukeboxes. Different mentality and sense of entitlement back in those days.
And look at what they accomplished with hard work and probably very little education and no handouts. The generation of Doers not Takers.