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Chicago pension debt climbs to $37.2 billion
Chicago Tribune· 10 hours agoChicago’s pension debt climbed to just over $37 billion last year, but city leaders of the special working group Mayor Brandon Johnson convened more than...
Editorial: CTU helps write the mayor’s important letters for him. Who’s running the city?
Chicago Tribune· 22 hours agoEveryone in Chicago knows how much Mayor Brandon Johnson owes the Chicago Teachers Union for his...
Chicago Pension Debt Rises to $37 Billion as City Hunts for Cash
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance UK· 3 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Chicago’s pension burden climbed again last year as new laws and accounting measures...
CTU lobbyist helped craft mayor’s letter to Senate president at heart of Springfield selective...
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoMayor Brandon Johnson’s letter to Illinois Senate President Don Harmon last month vowing not to shut down selective enrollment schools was directly edited ...
Opinion | Chicago Needs to be Repaired Not Taxed for Reparations
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoIt’ll have to cost billions to fund and attempts to find that revenue will drive out residents.
Chicago Teachers Union endorses slate of candidates for Chicago’s school board election
Chicago Tribune· 5 days agoLess than a week after the filing period ended for Chicago’s first school board election, the...
Editorial: Walgreens could join other major retailers fleeing high-crime parts of Chicago
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoWalgreens is in trouble. And that means trouble for Chicago. The Deerfield-based pharmacy giant,...
Mulling Reparations, California Sets Aside $12 Million as a Start
New York Times· 4 days agoDirect cash payments are not imminent, but under the state’s new budget, the money could go toward...
With climate change coming, Chicago’s current migrant influx ‘only going to be the beginning’
Chicago Tribune· 1 day agoCHICAGO — More than 44,000 migrants have been sent to Chicago by bus or plane over the last two...
State adds two migrant shelters months before DNC, causing objections from lawmakers
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoAhead of August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration...