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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.
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.
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ProPublica is in favor of illegal aliens living in the USA.
No matter the political dynamics of the situation, the building wasn’t fit for occupancy and, despite how the useless local media tried to sell it, the damage was obviously widespread and had been done long before the rat trap was raided.
Most everything the Trump administration says is false and a lie. Poor Trumpy’s cannot figure out the obvious. ICE is destroying the Republican party, so many people dislike the killing of Americans.
Except the Dems in IL that turn a blind eye to US citizens killed by illegals and criminals.
Like what?
Trump made a mistake and is not a racist.
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I saw the video posted. It satirizes all the DNC’s brightest stars. JB the Hutt is an elephant in it. Hilarious. No apology needed. Compared to the tripe I have seen for 9 years posted by leftists, the vid is downright clever. If anything, gorillas should be upset for being portrayed as the odiously smug Barry and Michelle.
You can also count the squatter problem as yet another type of fraud/theft that is rampant in Chicago. Even though that anti-squatter bill was supposed to go into effect in January, police said recently they don’t know how to implement it.
I don’t believe Chicago crime is going down. Random assaults, brazen daylight shootings, burglaries, drug dealing, stealing, committing fraud, and squatting have become normalized.
What a pathetic article! There were squatters and criminal activity. The landlord was desperate for help. Fifteen of “the immigrants and others who lived in the building acknowledged there was criminal activity there, including the murder of a Venezuelan man last summer…” Isn’t that dangerous enough? According to ProPublica, squatters, criminal activity, and a murder in an apartment building are trivial matters. (And I’m sure the squatters were trashing the place and doing drugs.) Would you want to live in this building? Can understand why property managers or maintenance people would avoid it.
What’s comical in a sad way is how the Leftist shills swallow it as truth.
ProPublica is the one of the largest purveyors of “BS” in the entire liberal media ecosphere. You can assume everything they print are straight up lies and fabrications. They’re no better than the now defunct ‘National Enquirer’ except they try to give themselves a veneer of respectability. Do not let that fool you – they are the definition of fake news.
A bunch of squatters set up camp in a rental complex and refuse to leave. Unlike the State of Florida, Crook County and Chicago rules give landlords basically no rights at all. There are a few illegal immigrants among the squatters. The landlord doesn’t know who is legal or not, all he knows is that there are people costing him money by squatting. Acting on a tip, ICE raids the place and tosses everyone out, arresting two illegal immigrants in the process. Melissa Sanchez and Jodi Cohen, DNC stenographers and Useless Chicago Media members operating under the leftist ProPublica banner,… Read more »
They just continue to peddle the same
communist BS