Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ‘Has The Toughest Job In America’
If you haven’t noticed, I find myself blogging about a lot of depressing crap. That’s not my intention- it just goes with the territory of talking about the subject material I do in this day and age....
View ArticleChicago ‘National Poster Child For Financial Distress’?
Whew. After spending a good deal of the day Saturday at a birthday party for one of my girlfriend’s sisters, I was pretty sore the next morning when I hobbled down my driveway to retrieve the Sunday...
View ArticleThe New York Times Spotlights Chicago’s Public Pension Crisis
This morning on The New York Times website, the most popular article in their U.S. section being e-mailed is the following: “Chicago Sees Pension Crisis Drawing Near” On August 5, Monica Davey and Mary...
View ArticleCity Of Chicago Annual Financial Analysis 2013
Since the beginning of the month I’ve been bringing up the latest release of the City of Chicago Annual Financial Analysis and its dismal budget deficit projections. Initially, I couldn’t find the...
View ArticleChicagoans: Should They Stay Or Should They Go?
These days, there are times living out here in the northwest suburbs of Chicago that I feel like Henry Hill (played by actor Ray Liotta) at the end of the 1990 film Goodfellas. No, not that part about...
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