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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.
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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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Nobody thought to get some train tickets and send them back to Mexico? I dont get it. The solution is really simple and pretty cheap compared to $51 million we don’t have.
Yet Chicago Republicans refuse to leave the city.
Just shut up & sit down then. You have the freedom to leave Chicago but instead you stay, fund & enable the corrupt city government.
Is that a Babylon Bee headline?
The Chicago Republican Party has no power, but they’re “mad as hell.” I’m sure that concerns the Chicago Dems mightily.