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The Center Square: Report: Unfunded pension liability has every Illinoisans on hook for $37,000
Every man, woman and child in Illinois is on the hook for $37,000 for the state’s unfunded public pension liabilities, according to a new report.
The seventh annual American Legislative Exchange Council’s “Unaccountable and Unaffordable” report on public pension liabilities pegs the amount of debt across the nation at nearly $7 trillion.
Chicago Sun-Times: City signs $29.3 million contract to build ‘winterized base camps’ for migrants
Chicago has taken the first concrete step to deliver on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s controversial plan to get more than 2,000 migrants off the floors of police stations, O’Hare and Midway airports and into giant tent cities he prefers to call “winterized base camps” before temperatures plummet.
Piggybacking onto an existing state procurement, the city has signed a $29.3 million contract with GardaWorld Federal Services LLC for “migrant temporary housing.”
Chicago Tribune: Without busing, CPS parents tell board of ed, they’re commuting for hours and risking their jobs
He’s giving it a couple more weeks. Chicago Public Schools parent Deepak Jha says he and his first grade son, Vansh, can only keep up their daily three- to four-hour round-trip commute on public transportation for so long.
Jha was among the scores of Chicago Public Schools parents who received a three-week notice that their children wouldn’t have bus transportation to and from school this year. For Jha, not only will winter affect the long stretches of walking and waiting outdoors for buses during their daily travel, but costs are adding up, totaling about $400 a month.
Daily Herald: Metra dubious about idea of merging with Pace and CTA
A big, happy transit family of Metra, Pace and the CTA? Numerous Metra leaders on Wednesday had reservations about a merger proposed by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.
A draft report by CMAP seeks to reinvent transit organizations and improve mobility in the region