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Chicago ranks near bottom in survey of best and worst run cities
Posted in Clown Car, Deception, Economy, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, Politics, Preckwinkle's Rules of Order, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Resident Spotlights, Springfield, Taxes, The Center Square, The Chicago Way, Unions on September 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »
By Sarah Roderick-Fitch | The Center Square
By Glenn Minnis | The Center Square contributor
The city of Chicago ranks near the bottom in the new Best & Worst-run cities in America survey of 148 different locations.
With researchers comparing the operating efficiency of each city, Chicago lands at No. 136 in the WalletHub survey after finishing 102nd in quality of city services and 140th in total budget per capita.
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Barrington Hills, isn’t shy about voicing his displeasure with Chicago’s dismal showing.
“Chicago has been known as The Second City, but we have dropped quite precipitously down to 136, and that is based on one thing and one thing alone, and that is progressive policies from people who are producing painful results for the residents and for those like my community who are living adjacent to the city,” McLaughlin told The Center Square. “It is no longer the place it was 30 years ago. It is no longer the financial capital of commodities in the world and no longer a place that you will go to and feel safe.”
Researchers weighed “quality of services” metrics that included health, safety and economy rank, measuring each category against the city’s per-capita budget.
As bad as things have gotten, McLaughlin still sees a way out for the city.
“I think Chicago has an opportunity, particularly with those who have recognized that the governor and the mayor have put illegal migrants ahead of citizens and the neighborhoods who have been underserved now recognize that they have been overlooked,” he said. “They just have to change who they’re voting for and they have a chance to do that every two years.”
Read more here.
Illinois tops U.S. in college spending, but loses over 106K students
Posted in Economy, Education, Illinois Policy Institute, Look For The Union Label, Overhead, Pension Funding, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Springfield, Taxes, Uncategorized, Unions on September 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Illinois ranked No. 1 for spending per student on higher education in 2024, paying more than double the national average. Declining enrollment, poorly structured finances, growing pension payments and bloated administration have driven up costs.
By Patrick Andriesen | Illinois Policy Institute
Illinois spends double the U.S. average per full-time higher education student, yet 106,375 fewer students want to attend its public community colleges and state universities than 15 years ago.
Pensions, administrative bloat and a poor funding formula are mainly to blame.
Illinois ranked No. 1 in the U.S. for higher education spending per full-time student in fiscal year 2024, spending $25,529 per student. That was double the national average and over $4,400 more per student than the No. 2 state: Wyoming, which had only about 8% of the students Illinois supports.
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That translates to Illinois spending the most in the nation per full-time student at public two-year institutions and the second most in the U.S. per full-time student at public four-year institutions.
But all that government money has failed to make Illinois higher education more attractive to students. Enrollment at two- and four-year institutions has dropped from 368,019 in 2009 to 261,644 in 2024, according to the State Higher Education Finance report.
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As spending by the state on higher education has climbed, so has the cost of tuition. Illinois’ in-state tuition for a public university now ranks No. 6 in the nation. It is the highest in the Midwest, rewarding Illinois students with more affordable options when they cross state lines.
Research in 2021 showed nearly 48% of Illinois’ four-year, college-bound students chose schools elsewhere, with the top picks being public universities in neighboring states where tuition was cheaper. They took their knowledge, income and tax dollars with them – often for good.
So why are Illinois taxpayers being forced to spend more on higher education when their schools are serving fewer students? And why does all that government spending fail to keep Illinois tuition from being among the highest in the nation?
State pensions, administrative glut and a poor funding model are mainly to blame at the state’s 12 public universities and 48 community colleges.
Read more here.
Chicago Democrats From America’s Murder Capital Refuse Trump’s Help on Crime
Posted in Crime, John Kass, OP/Ed, Politics, Preckwinkle's Rules of Order, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, The Chicago Way, Unions on September 3, 2025| 2 Comments »
By John Kass | John Kass News
I grew up in Chicago–which for 13 straight years now has been the murder capital of America–believing that the Democrats were just too crafty to ever fall stupidly into some Republican trap.
But I was dead wrong.
When I was a boy there was legendary Chicago mayor named Richard J. Daley—who loved the city—and was tough enough and ruthless enough to run it and protect it.
Now Chicago is run by a racist pinhead subject to increasing anxiety and panic attacks. The city’s commercial real estate market is cratering as businesses flee, corporate offices close, and Democrat leaders refuse President Donald Trump’s help to send in the National Guard to help with the murder epidemic
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, soft of mind and body, ridiculed the president’s offer of assistance, saying crime really isn’t an emergency, though more than 50 people were shot and at least 7 were murdered over the weekend.
The truth is that Mayor Pin Head and Gov. Fat Boy don’t really care about black and brown people who are the true victims of violent crimes. They care about the Chicago Teachers Union. They care about shielding Democrat boss Toni Preckwinkle, the Cook County Board President and Cook County Democrat chairman.
Boss Toni is a hard leftist protected by the corrupt corporate legacy media. She is without a doubt the architect of Chicago’s anarchy of crime.
The Democrats are now the pro-criminal party. They are eager to defund police and clear out the county jail that Boss Toni considers too black, too brown. Although the victims of violent crime in Chicago are black and brown. The city’s public schoolchildren can’t read or do math at grade level. All they’re prepared to do is make a life of violent crime and prison.
Chicago circles the drain.
Read more here.
District 220 Board of Education meets tonight
Posted in 220, Agendas, Barrington Education Association, Board of Education, Conflict of interest, Deception, District 220 referendum, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Ethics, His Master's Voice, Illinois Federation of Teachers, Illinois State Board of Elections, Look For The Union Label, Open Meetings Act, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Taxes, Unions, Video Streaming, What the Ficke (Bradford)? on September 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
The District 220 Board of Education meets Tuesday evening at 6:00 PM at the District Administration Center, 515 W. Main Street. Items on their agenda include:
- Consideration to Open Hearing for Tentative Budget
- FOIA Reports
- Personnel Report
- Minor Policies
- Consideration to Approve Alternate Survey of Learning Conditions
- Consideration to Approve Notice to Remedy
- First Reading of Board Policy
A copy of the agenda can be viewed here. The meeting will be live-streamed on the district YouTube channel.
Related: “District 220 posts Notice of Tentative Budget Public Hearing,” “Dual School Board and State Rep Positions Legally Incompatible,” “D220 Abuses Taxpayer Funds in favor of Partisan Campaign,” “Ding In Her Own Words – CONFLICTED!,” “District 220 Board of Education meets this evening (07.15.25)” “Ding Doubles Down,” “Ding’s D220 Deception,” “Chan Ding running in Democratic primary in 52nd,” “Three (3) Democratic candidates queued to run for the IL 52nd District House seat in 2026”
Illinois Gov. Pritzker floats conspiracy theory that Trump has ‘other aims’ for deploying National Guard to blue cities: ‘He would like to stop the elections’
Posted in Commodius Maximus, Elections, New York Post, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order on September 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Pritzker threatened to sue the Trump administration if National Guard troops are deployed to Chicago. | Youtube/Face the Nation
By Victor Nava | New York Post
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker raised a wild conspiracy theory Sunday for why President Trump is considering deploying National Guard troops to Chicago and other blue cities plagued by crime.
“He has other aims, other than fighting crime,” Pritzker confidently stated, during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections,” the governor continued.
“He’ll just claim that there’s some problem with an election, and then he’s got troops on the ground that can take control.”
The White House dismissed Pritzker’s allegation.
“It’s amazing the lengths this slob will go to in order to deflect from the terrible crime crisis that has been plaguing Chicago for years,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Post.
Jackson noted that the city has racked up more murders than any other US city for 13 straight years and that more illegal firearms are recovered in Chicago than in New York City and LA combined.
Read more here.
WATCH: ‘Partisans’ who want to should ‘GET UP and MOVE’ from Illinois, Pritzker says
Posted in Commodius Maximus, Elections, Fat Bastard, Fat Man Walking, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, The Center Square on August 31, 2025| 1 Comment »
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker in Southern Illinois on Aug. 28, 2025 | Illinois.gov
If you’re not willing to stick around and help make the state better, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says you can “get up and move.”
Pritzker made the comments Thursday afternoon in Southern Illinois when asked about the movement to split the state into two.
“Look, if you want to leave the state, I would like you to stay, I’d like you to get involved and make it a better place by working together with us,” Pritzker said. “But if you want to leave, then get up and move.”
G.H. Merritt, the chairman of New Illinois, a movement to split the state in two, said 70 of the 102 counties in Illinois have a state split movement growing.
“One would think that if you’re at the helm of a state and this is going on, you would at least be a little curious about why are these people thinking this,” Merritt told The Center Square. “Why are these people wanting to do this? He has no curiosity about that.”
Pritzker said splitting the state was a partisan idea and won’t ever happen.
“That’s not how it works. You know, if they really want to get involved, they should show up, vote, make sure that their voices are heard,” Pritzker said.
Dual School Board and State Rep Positions Legally Incompatible
Posted in 220, Barrington Education Association, Board of Education, Deception, Dinky, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Education, Elections, Ethics, FOIA, His Master's Voice, Illinois Federation of Teachers, Illinois State Board of Elections, Look For The Union Label, New Normal?, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, RINO, Taxes, Transparency, Unions, Village Board, What the Ficke (Bradford)? on August 29, 2025| 5 Comments »
Following our recent posts Ding In Her Own Words – CONFLICTED! and D220 Abuses Taxpayer Funds in favor of Partisan Campaign we understand some believe Erin Chan Ding has the right to sit dually on both the D220 Board of Education (BOE) and as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 52nd District. This is unequivocally false (and we didn’t need to consult any high paid lawyers on the taxpayer dime to figure that out).
While a person may be able to serve certain government positions dually, say Village of Barrington Hills Trustee simultaneously with Illinois State Senator for the 26th District, Illinois law recognizes that certain positions, including that of serving on a School Board and as a member of the House of Representatives, are deemed legally incompatible under Illinois law. Illinois law holds that the duties of those two offices conflict such that an individual cannot fully and faithfully perform the responsibilities of both. Illinois courts have applied this doctrine to prevent dual officeholding in cases where conflicts of interest or overlapping duties arise and have emphasized that incompatibility does not require an actual conflict but rather the potential for conflict between the duties of the two offices.
The duties of a school board member involve overseeing local education policies, budgets, and contracts, while a state representative is responsible for broader legislative functions, including education funding and policy at the state level. These overlapping responsibilities could create conflicts of interest, particularly in matters where state legislation impacts local school districts. Even if no actual conflict has arisen, the potential for conflict is sufficient to render dual officeholding incompatible.
One may look to the very partisan League of Women Voters who has previously provided context for this conflict, stating: “Recusal is not a sufficient remedy where two public offices have conflicting duties because public officials are elected to be the voice of the citizens and abstaining from a vote deprives the citizens of their voices. Also, public policy demands that an office holder must discharge his duties with the actuality of impartiality and undivided loyalty. Such conflicts of duty are public conflicts and cannot be cured by recusal. However, private conflicts of interests may be cured by recusal.”
To put this in perspective related to our prior posts about BOE Member Chan Ding,: She is currently violating her Oath of Office and the BOE Code of Conduct; BOE President Ficke-Bradford has effectively silenced Chan Ding, depriving the citizens of her voice, by removing her from the majority of her BOE committees; and, Chan Ding’s run for the 52nd has additionally raised the specter of partiality to the Democratic Party and divided loyalty between it and the BOE.
Related: “D220 Abuses Taxpayer Funds in favor of Partisan Campaign,” “Ding In Her Own Words – CONFLICTED!,” “District 220 Board of Education meets this evening (07.15.25)” “Ding Doubles Down,” “Ding’s D220 Deception,” “Chan Ding running in Democratic primary in 52nd,” “Three (3) Democratic candidates queued to run for the IL 52nd District House seat in 2026”
Parents blast blue state governor for extending student financial aid to illegal immigrants
Posted in 220, 300, Barrington Education Association, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Education, Fox News, Illinois Federation of Teachers, Immigration, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Taxes, Topics Of Interest on August 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Parents’ rights activists told Fox News Digital that Illinois parents are enraged about a new law signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker extending student financial aid eligibility to illegal aliens. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images; Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
By Peter Pinedo | Fox News
Parents in Illinois are enraged about a new law signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker extending student financial aid eligibility to illegal aliens.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Michelle Cunney, an Illinois mother and local Parents’ Rights in Education chapter leader, called the new law a “nightmare.”
“To be honest, it’s terrifying that not only are we having to pay for this, as you know, tax-paying citizens … But also, as parents, not knowing how it will really truly end up affecting our children and their education,” explained Cunney.
Parents in Illinois are enraged about a new law signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker extending student financial aid eligibility to illegal aliens.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Michelle Cunney, an Illinois mother and local Parents’ Rights in Education chapter leader, called the new law a “nightmare.”
“To be honest, it’s terrifying that not only are we having to pay for this, as you know, tax-paying citizens … But also, as parents, not knowing how it will really truly end up affecting our children and their education,” explained Cunney.
Read more here.
Related: “New Illinois law guarantees immigrant students access to public education”
Pritzker unveils Illinois LGBTQ HOTLINE amid debate over transgender athletes
Posted in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Fat Bastard, Girlie man, Overhead, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Taxes, The Center Square on August 26, 2025| 1 Comment »
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By Catrina Barker | The Center Square contributor
Reports of a transgender student being accepted onto the Conant High School girls volleyball team has supporters and opponents sharing their thoughts with the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District board.
While critics voiced concerns about potential injuries to female athletes, others defended the decision as a matter of inclusion and equal rights.
Marsha McClary, chair of Lake County Moms for Liberty, expressed concerns about fairness in girls’ sports.
“There’s an innate difference in strength, size, and performance of biological males versus females,” said McClary. “Even the Olympic Committee has rules that elite athletes compete based upon biological sex. High school athletes deserve the same fairness.”
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee recently banned transgender athletes from women’s sports, following President Donald Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
Read more here.
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