Given where Chicago is right now this new stadium proposal is a bad idea and a bad deal – Wirepoints on The Chicago Way with John Kass
April 25, 2024
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Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Chicago’s latest bond offering, why Chicago’s dismal home value growth is due to poor policies, the next $70 million to be spent on migrants, the 9% salary hikes demanded by the CTU, and why Illinois lawmakers voting to stop Chicago’s selective enrollment schools from being closed is hypocritical.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/21/2024.
Governor Pritzker already reneged on the fair maps campaign promise by his lack of action in pursuing a remedy to the current rules which do not honor community, rather allow goofy shaped boundaries. Goofy shaped boundaries allow politicians to pack a district, and spreads the press more thinly as they are required to cover more districts/politicians in a given community. Perhaps he will pursue fair maps after new bogus maps are drawn in 2021 (which will be used in the 2022 – 2030 elections). This is the maps for US House, State House, and State Senate districts, using US Census… Read more »
Cheri Boustos is in the most gerrymandered district in America, and she is useless except as a loyal pawn.