Millionaires are leaving Chicago more than any other city in the United States on a net basis, according to a new report.

About 3,000 individuals with net assets of $1 million or more, not including their primary residence, moved from the city last year, with many citing rising racial tensions and worries about crime as factors in the decision, according to research firm New World Wealth. That represented about 2 percent of the city’s high net worth individuals.

Cities in the United States that saw a net inflow of millionaires included Seattle and San Francisco.

Illinois lawmakers kicked off the final two months of the spring session with a flurry of activity Monday, advancing measures to punish gun traffickers and expedite criminal hearings in Cook County for low-level offenses.

The United States today is home to two huge but essentially invisible populations. Each of them is widely stigmatized and largely composed of people living in the shadows. The government does not know who they are, where they are or how well they are doing.

The first of these invisible tribes — illegal immigrants — at least has attracted more than passing comment in politics. By contrast, America’s second invisible caste is almost never mentioned. Yet this group is far larger than the unauthorized immigrant population, and it is made up almost entirely of U.S. citizens.

I refer to our vast underground army of released felons — adult men and women convicted of serious criminal offenses for which they have been punished with prison time or probation, and who now form part of the general population. So hidden from public sight is this vast army, indeed, that many Americans are unaware of its existence.

Lunch at Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, a restaurant best known for its scantily clad waitresses; a nearly $300 bill at Maggiano’s Little Italy; bratwurst, sauerkraut, soda and a 12-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon at Jewel.

These are some of the items paid for by Naperville Township taxpayers, charged by Highway Commissioner Stan Wojtasiak on his township-issued credit card, statements from September 2013 through February 2016 show. The documents were acquired by the Naperville Sun through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The amount spent on food and restaurants was nearly $3,500 over 21/2 years and include charges at Dunkin’ Donuts and Morton’s of Naperville, as well as $19 in liquor ordered at a hotel while traveling, according to Capital One statements and submitted receipts. As the city of Naperville looks to take over services for the Naperville Township Road District, saying it can maintain the unincorporated township’s 16 to 20 miles of road for 43 percent less than currently being spent, some wonder if Wojtasiak’s meals and treats — not to mention the unitemized or missing receipts — are another example of unnecessary overspending of taxpayer money by the district.

While the Obama administration has been vocal about its intentions to limit access to guns for Americans across the nation, in the process achieving the opposite and leading to record gun sales, FBI firearm background checks that just hit an all time high for the month of March and record stock prices of US gun makers such as Smith and Wesson, perhaps it should focus on what has become the epicenter of ground zero for violence and gun homicides in the US: Obama’s “home town” of Chicago.

The Chicago Police Department spent a record $116.1 million on overtime in 2015 — up 17.2 percent from the previous year — to mask a manpower shortage that has mushroomed under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, with police retirements outpacing hiring by 975 officers.

“Overtime is totally out of control. Arrests are down. Stops are down. Crime is up. All we’re doing is paying people to do nothing,” said Ald. Anthony Beale (9th), former chairman of the City Council’s Police Committee.

The hotel industry is offering an olive branch to vacation-rental firms like Airbnb on reforms proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

The Emanuel administration submitted an ordinance amendment in January that would have set a 90-day limit on rentals per year. Those renting their places more than 90 days would be required to get a business license, at a cost of $500 every two years. Yet those under would only have to register with the city, which would then monitor compliance and consumer complaints.

Marc Gordon, however, president of the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association, thinks he has a better idea.

Two judicial candidates rated as “Not Recommended” by 12 Chicago bar associations won anyway in the March 15 primaries, a pretty good sign we need a better way to decide whom we put on the bench.

A constitutional amendment that would add a modest merit selection dimension to how Illinois picks judges looks like the way to go.