Chicago peeps, call your alders and get involved. The Budget situation is getting spicy. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJC77YuW9i4OYHIRRQpO6fHP_lhH3HAWp3VoBq91EpFe0oNg/viewform?pli=1 Also, Libraries are going to suffer cuts, my alder put together a survey to gather thoughts on the cuts. You don’t need to live on the 26 ward to fill it out https://forms.gle/DpHwdaX11jQrN7My5
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Local politics (this is when I wished you could post in multiple channels) Some Chicago alders are pushing back on the corporate head tax and came up with the idea of advertising on light poles among collecting debts from ambulance rides… This is unreal https://news.wttw.com/2025/12/16/rival-budget-proposal-advances-calling-473m-new-taxes-35m-advertising-light-poles-and If you live in Chicago call your alder and ask them to think of something else or support the corporate head tax
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Venting time: Richard Hart saying Mexico doesn’t have a bread culture when we literally have Pan de Muerto and conchas AND he’s part of the gentrification problem is just nasty. How dare he criticize the bolillo.
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