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Article: Leasing vacant land would end city's crisis
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 26, 1986
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In response to your Sept. 21 editorial:
At my Sept. 17 news conference, I offered an alternative to
what Mayor Washington declared was a fiscal crisis in Chicago.
This is not the first time in his three and a half years that
the present mayor has threatened the public with the big stick of
fiscal crisis and governmental emergency. The remedies he offered
were 40 percent reductions in police and fire service, closing of
health clinics and greatly reduced garbage collections. That would
indeed be an emergency, and would be very hard on the people of
Chicago.
I believe, and I have said this since 1982, that raising taxes
on homes and businesses is not the way to go for Chicago. ...