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A group of Chicago residents calling themselves "The People's CDOT" are working on city road projects they said the city won't; They won't show their faces or use their names because what they're doing isn't legal. "When CDOT needs to destroy something that's making people safer, they have a very rapid response," The People's CDOT said in a tweet. "But when people are asking CDOT to make our streets safer, it takes years and years to get a response."
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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Reminds me of Detroiters that mowed the lawns of the vacant homes in their neighborhood.
Oh my. This group is basically Bob Hoskins’ character of the ‘Rogue Repairman’ from the Teryy Gilliam film ‘Brazil’.
Chicago is a mere parody of an actual city.
If these residents patch their neighborhood potholes, will city workers rush out and put the holes back? So comical – Chicago, the dysfunctional Leftist utopia.
These AssHats Are Building Homemade Speed-Bumps, Traffic Barricades, On Chicago Streets — With Zero Understanding Of Traffic Safety