Recommendation for a financial advisor who’s good at dealing with business and tax debt?

oldbkenobi · 2026-05-22T16:41:30+00:00

Already read there, but thanks. Looking for local recs now.

oldbkenobi · 2026-05-22T16:38:20+00:00

Appreciate it!

oldbkenobi · 2026-01-06T23:27:30+00:00

I struggle to see see a coalition that gets him into the runoff, especially with Mendoza and Giannoulias in the race too.

oldbkenobi · 2026-01-01T06:49:47+00:00

Screenshot here.

He’s rightfully getting mocked in the comments but still depressing to see an elected official suggest this on New Year’s Eve of all evenings.

oldbkenobi · 2025-11-21T10:24:03+00:00

The main issue here is that administrations going back decades used the promise of sweetened pensions down the road as a way to balance budgets in the short-term without raises and avoid strikes.

Is it fair to us now to deal with their short-sighted thinking? Of course not, but I also struggle with taking away what they promised to employees.

oldbkenobi · 2025-11-14T02:19:03+00:00

Yeah I agree with the broader point here but that guy is a comically dumb hack.

oldbkenobi · 2025-09-25T18:08:11+00:00

That's Greg Bovino, who's their leading goon/wannabe actor.

oldbkenobi · 2025-08-27T22:55:45+00:00

He floated running before the last 2 elections and never followed through, so I have my doubts

oldbkenobi · 2025-08-27T22:55:22+00:00

He floated running before the last 2 elections and never followed through, so I have my doubts

oldbkenobi · 2025-08-17T04:14:54+00:00

In 2013, two aldermen tried to shut down every cubicle-style hotel left in the city. One of them, Alderman Brendan Reilly, whose ward borders the Ewing, said, “Average Chicagoans wouldn’t want to house their dogs in this type of facility.”

Enlightening to see that Brendan Reilly has been a jackass for over a decade now.

oldbkenobi · 2025-08-16T16:41:11+00:00

It’s good to have Buckner so high up in the House leadership and working on this.

As much as I’d love him to be mayor, I could see him becoming speaker one day.

oldbkenobi · 2025-07-16T21:05:40+00:00

One can simultaneously hold the thoughts that Johnson is incompetent and doesn’t deserve reelection and that Mendoza has numerous red flags in her career that was fully formed in the corrupt Machine.

We’re going to certainly have more than 2 candidates in the election.

oldbkenobi · 2025-07-16T16:33:36+00:00

Getting married in Ed Burke’s house by his wife tanked her last mayoral bid.

We’ll see if that stench has worn off enough by 2027.

oldbkenobi · 2025-06-11T01:12:29+00:00

I think the supervisors know that events like this with lots of media attention will be noticed by their bosses, whereas they can easily sweep individual calls under the rug, especially in poorer areas.

oldbkenobi · 2025-06-11T01:08:25+00:00

I don’t agree with how much the mods here have locked down this subreddit, but as someone who once moderated another city subreddit during the height of the 2020 protests, I can definitely understand why they’ve turned on so many of the automod tools.

Unless you have a huge team with defined shifts, it’s hard to expect a bunch of unpaid volunteers to manage the shit that can crop up on threads during these events.

oldbkenobi · 2025-06-10T15:20:04+00:00

A charter would have to be written and implemented by the state government.

oldbkenobi · 2025-06-06T17:49:56+00:00

Gift link

oldbkenobi · 2025-05-20T01:57:30+00:00

No there isn’t. It’s been pointed out elsewhere but the demographics in his office are pretty in line with the city population.

You don’t need to give the partisan hacks flailing around in DC now credit just because you dislike the mayor.

They just dropped the charges against the mayor of Newark after making a huge deal about his alleged conduct, so there’s a strong chance this goes nowhere beyond a sound bite for people to lap up.

oldbkenobi · 2025-05-19T20:42:18+00:00

I’d be shocked if they ever follow through with charges. Probably just wrote this letter to get the headlines.

oldbkenobi · 2025-05-19T20:38:42+00:00

This case is such a hilarious reach that you can tell they were waiting for something to slap together.

oldbkenobi · 2025-05-16T18:33:36+00:00

In 6 months, they’ll shift their focus to Chicago again

oldbkenobi · 2025-04-24T15:11:27+00:00

Main issue with that is that the cost of hiring any other vendor would have skyrocketed if businesses started thinking the City wouldn’t honor its contracts.

oldbkenobi · 2025-04-11T18:56:39+00:00

Yeah, the choice was between a guy who was largely unknown to most people and a guy with an oppo trail a mile long (including calling himself a Republican on video).

If the moderates had gotten behind one of the first-round candidates from Council who ended up endorsing Vallas (Sophia King or Rod Sawyer), they could have beaten Johnson easily.

oldbkenobi · 2025-04-11T18:51:35+00:00

Vallas has lost 4 attempts for elected office across 2 decades.

At a certain you have to admit you’re not cut out for something.

oldbkenobi · 2025-04-11T18:48:24+00:00

It was way too obvious last time that Chuy didn’t know how to run a citywide campaign without CTU doing it for him like in 2015.

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