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Pension debt, property taxes, budget holes: Chicago’s next mayor faces huge financial problems
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAt a packed City Club luncheon in late January, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot presented a hopeful picture of the city’s economic outlook. Speaking to a crowd of movers and shakers at Maggiano ...
Mayor Johnson aims to tackle a problem that vexed his predecessors: Woefully underfunded pensions
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 12 months agoChicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has created a task force to look for solutions to Chicago’s underfunded pensions, asking the group to address one of the city’s deepest and most intractable financial ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first big fiscal test: How to translate campaign promises into dollars and...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCHICAGO — Brandon Johnson strode into a conference room this month at Malcolm X College, where...
Chicago Mayor Nixes Property Tax Hike in Budget Proposal
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 2 years ago(Bloomberg) -- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abandoned a property tax increase in her 2023 budget...
New district for Galesburg means new state senator; Here are 36th District GOP candidates
The Register-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe new Illinois 36th Senate District, which includes most of the Galesburg area, also features new...
Biden scores major union backing as its leaders attack Trump
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoJoe Biden will land a major union endorsement Wednesday from North America’s Building Trades Unions,...
CORRECTED-The Racial Wealth Gap: A history of inequity
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoPolicies and practices that have disadvantaged Black Americans generation after generation help explain the country's racial wealth gap. 1862: The U.S. government establishes a pension system ...