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Then-Mayor Richard M. Daley splashed out more than $60 million to pretty up the city ahead of the 1996 convention, according to a Tribune analysis at the time. “West of the United Center, there’s evidence there of 1968, what happened over there,” said activist Bradly Johnson. “And the West Side hasn’t really been invested in since that time, since the late ’60s.”
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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all west siders should demand they get signed on to the actors guild union during duration of DNC convention….STAGE PROP PEOPLE DON’T COME CHEEP for pols virtue signaling opps—stop the exploitation/ stop the systemic community disinvestment!!!
Are there really any West Siders who really think the Democrat Party gives a hoot about them or their neighborhood? We had Obama for President for eight years, with a Democrat Secretary of Education, Sec of HUD, Sec of DOT, Sec of HHS. What did they do for the West Side? Zero. Now we have another Dem in the White House, and what do Biden or any of his posse do for them/ Zero again. Oh, so now that the Dem convention is coming to town there is supposed to be a grand awakening? Don’t count on it. Look for… Read more »
Of course the Democrat Party cares. That’s why they let them run around like feral animals shooting and robbing each other with impunity. They act like wildings because they want to. That’s what happens in most societies when law enforcement goes absent – the criminals take over. They’ve been screaming for years to get the police off their backs, and the Democrat Party agreed. If the Democrat Party didn’t care about them, they’d be locking them up mass incarceration style like its 1996 again. The ‘seat’ at the table is a meager attempt at more legitimate extortion, instead of holding… Read more »
Well west side gang bangers ought to ply their trade on the conventioneers.
Chicago’s Filthy Jew-Hating Sewer Rats Are Taking Over The Democrat Party – Chicago Reader
Where are the Republicans pushing this topic as a reminder that the Democrats pander to the Black vote every election cycle, then quickly forget them. Quick way to pick up a point or two or at least cost the Dems a couple points.
The 2024 Chicago Democrat Convention Is Already A Grift ‘N’ Graft Grab-Bag