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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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How stylish. Obviously, not the best and brightest. DIE is death. Pathetic.
And yet “diversity” doesn’t seem to solve, much less address, problems Chicago is facing. All just window-dressing, virtue-signaling, and “woke” rhetoric, while the proverbial “house burns down”.
Wish Chicago Magazine would stop praising Chicago as some sort of DEI paradise, because it’s not. Time for all black youths’ lives mattered to everyone.
Oh the ethnic and racial diversity promises fun times when the Latinos on the Council start demanding the Black Caucus give up more wards since they are a larger population in the city.
So much for everyone joining hands and singing Kumbaya.
A quick look on the 2020 census map, tract by tract, shows hispanic neighborhoods spreading, and surrounding, traditional south side black neighborhoods. Blacks right now are little more than a medium sized island surrounded by hispanics encroaching from the southeast, the southwest and even some suburbs now have massively growing hispanic populations. I bet you didn’t know that some census tracts in Blue Island, Harvey, Midlotian, Markham and Posen are more than 50% hispanic. I had no idea things had changed, that fast. Blacks still live in most of the best south side neighborhoods along the lake shore, prime real… Read more »
For some reason I’m really interested in what’s going to happen to the completely black South Shore neighborhood. Look at how magnificent this prime real estate is: https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/30745/IL/Chicago/South-Shore BUT!! There were 39! murders there last year and 12 so far this year and summer just started. Contrast this with Calumet Heights, which has census tracts that 80% hispanic, and is a 9 minute bus ride away (2.8 miles) south of South Shore, had only four murders last year and all of them were black, not hispanic. South Chicago right next to Calumet Heights, and equally as close to South Shore,… Read more »
That is the reason the liberals placed them here, to remove blacks from the city of Chicago, trust me blacks didn’t take care of the property and we didn’t respect the neighborhoods but sending illegals into the mix to get rid of the populations like they did in LA reminds me of the Clan days of the democrats.
So does the Biden administration; just don’t mention experience, competence, qualifications or actual results.
Diversity of thought? they’re mostly commies, just have different color skin and varying fetishes they flaunt publicly.
Fake news fraud Chicago Magazine thinks more communist cockroaches is a win for Chicago — no wonder that shit-rag’s circulation has been declining for years
I made the mistake of subscribing to Chicago to support WFMT programming during the mid 1970s. Within a few weeks I started to get mailings requesting funds for the gun control committees of the ruling class. Chicago magazine thought WFMT listeners were only socialists who only believed that the Constitution was a “living document”.
Liberals say the constitution was written by a bunch of old white guys. Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776: James Monroe, 18 Aaron Burr, 20 Alexander Hamilton, 21 James Madison, 25 Thomas Jefferson, 33 John Adams, 40 Paul Revere, 41 George Washington, 44