Chickens to the Roost

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Hal Dardick and Bill Ruthhart of the Chicago Tribune report that

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is set to call for the largest property tax increase in modern Chicago history to raise enough money to make a major pension payment for police and firefighters next year, 

The tax increase, despite its size, will not be enough, however, to cover all of the markers put down by the Chicago political machine in previous years, so 

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