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Bally’s Chicago casino closes out year $9.7M short of Lightfoot’s budget bet

The temporary casino at the historic Medinah Temple made less than a quarter of the money former Mayor Lori Lightfoot had estimated it would churn out for police and firefighter pension funds.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 9, 2024

Civic Federation taps former city inspector general Joe Ferguson as president

Ferguson replaces Laurence Msall, the public finance expert whose death in February left a giant hole in the watchdog landscape.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

Civic Federation urges City Council to devise contingency plan for migrant funding

The $150 million in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion budget is only “half of the projected amount necessary to care for asylum seekers,” the Civic Federation noted in its annual review of the city budget.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 1, 2023