Untrue Social Media Posts Claim Anyone Can Sign Up At United Center — And It’s Creating A Headache For City Health Workers – Block Club Chicago

The voucher code and website in the message - spreading wildly on social media and text messages - are actually meant to be used by people who live in specific ZIP codes where communities were hit hard by COVID-19. That means the city’s health department staff are having to go through appointments made with the code and cancel those of people who don’t live in those ZIP codes.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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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