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French artist Jean Dubuffet’s sculpture “Monument with Standing Beast,” once dubbed “Snoopy in a Blender,” will move to the former BMO Harris Bank building at 115 S. LaSalle St. - the building recently purchased by the state to replace some of the office space lost with the Thompson Center sale.
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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This abomination should be moved to a scrap heap. I’ve seen two year olds sculpt better.
I know that plaza well, and that sculpture is way too big for that space. It will overpower that space and it doesn’t belong there.