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Ted joined Dan and Amy to discuss the latest federal economic data that shows that Illinois is still a national outlier, why the state’s GDP and wage growth is so anemic, why the breakdown of the nuclear family is such a problem, and more.
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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.
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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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Only going to get worse as more and more job creators leave for other states.
Illinois picks the pockets of small businesses every chance they get.
One reason-Pritzker and left Democrats