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Posts in category "Illinois politics"

Pat Fitzgerald for Illinois governor. Or Chicago mayor.

Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. attorney for Northern Illinois, blazed a trail right into the slammer for an entire catalogue of the state’s politically corrupt. Now that he is retiring after an unprecedented (for Illinois) decade of integrity, he said at a press conference on Thursday that he would like to remain in public service of some... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
Friday at 11:01 am
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Do you think that you could live on a $427,000 pension?

That’s what a retired University of Illinois professor rakes in. According to Jim Tobin, of Taxpayers United of America, a bunch of others also are pulling in the kind of pensions that the Illinois public employee pension system simply cannot sustain. His press release reads: The most outrageous pensions in all the Illinois state pension... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 30, 2012 at 3:57 pm
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In apparent first, a public pension plan files for bankruptcy

According to Pensions & Investments: In what’s believed to be a first by a public pension plan, the Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund, Saipan, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. The public defined benefit plan is only 38.8% funded, thanks to low investment returns and a benefit structure that’s been increased without raises... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 28, 2012 at 1:07 pm
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Personal PAC, Fred Eychaner and big money bought an Illinois supreme court justice victory

Last minute personal smears by radical pro-choice group funded by big money contributions and backed by Rahm Emanuel’s Democratic machine carries the day for Illinois Supreme Court justice. Never heard of Fred Eychaner? Then you need to read this post in With Both Hands, a blog by a genuine Chicagoan, Pat Hickey. Eychaner is the Daddy Warbucks... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 21, 2012 at 12:21 pm
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Poll: Do you plan to vote in Tuesday's Illinois primary?

Judging by the seeming indifference in the Tuesday primary demonstrated by the dearth of posts about it on ChicagoNow, I gather that a lot of you are not planning on voting Tuesday. To help clear things up, I invite you to participate in this poll. (Click on link to take the poll and/or view results)... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 19, 2012 at 2:17 pm
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Wis. Gov. Scott Walker sticks it to Illinois

In prepared remarks at the Conservative Political Action meeting in Washington, D.C., Walker compared what was happening in his state with Illinois: Contrast that with my neighbor to the south. There is no greater example of the failed policies we are running against than the mess we see in Illinois. Last year, Governor Quinn proudly... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 11, 2012 at 8:59 am
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Closure of Illinois centers prelude to union battles

By Dennis Byrne,
February 7, 2012 at 2:07 pm
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Illinois isn't the only state with big pension problems

Check out Iowa’s Taxpayers United of America has the list... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 28, 2012 at 10:13 am
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Illinois unemployment rate increased most in the nation in 2011

According to the Illinois Policy Institute: As Gov. Pat Quinn prepares for the State of the State address on Feb. 1, he will find it difficult to defend the state’s economic policies that have resulted in more unemployed Illinoisans in 2011. Almost a year after Illinois’ record income tax increase, the state’s unemployment woes contrast... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 26, 2012 at 4:29 pm
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Ex-City Colleges Chief owed $500,000 in Unused Sick Pay

By Patrick Rehkamp/BGA, with the Chicago News Co-op  For Wayne Watson, it sure paid to stay healthy. By the time Watson left his job as chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago in 2009, he had accrued around 500 unused sick days over his three-decade career with the community college system. While many public and private... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 26, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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