The exodus doesn’t faze Chicago leaders. They seem to think if they insert the word “equity” into everything that things will somehow get better. – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer

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JackBolly
3 years ago

People need to realize the majority of people inside the city want this. You have to move – it’s not going to get better.

Honest Jerk
3 years ago
Reply to  JackBolly

If they haven’t figured it out by now, nothing you or I say will matter.

Giddyap
3 years ago

The only real “inequity” is U-Haul Rates —

— the price for a one-way truck rental moving from Chicago to Dallas is $1,650 for a 20 foot truck.

— the price for a one-way truck rental moving from Dallas to Chicago is $460 for a 20 foot truck.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/u-haul-prices-reveal-high-demand-to-get-out-of-illinois/

Last edited 3 years ago by Giddyap
Honest Jerk
3 years ago
Reply to  Giddyap

those rates say it all

SUE
3 years ago

YOU HAVE A SADISTIC MAYOR WHO SURROUNDS HER HOME WITH POLICE AND DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE AT ALL………YOU HAVE A SADISTIC GOV THAT WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH HE HOPS ON HIS PRIVATE PLANE AND GOES TO FLORIDA TO SPREAD VILE LIES TO A GROUP OF DEMOCRATS…………YOU TELL ME IF ILLINOIS IS IN A REAL DOWNWARD SPIRAL………USED TO BE A BEAUTIFUL STATE

Honest Jerk
3 years ago
Reply to  SUE

Sue, you seem upset!

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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.

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