We are a few weeks into Chicago’s $16.6 billion spending plan, but the city is still in major debt. University of Chicago professor and director of the Center for Municipal Finance, Justin Marlowe, told host Jacoby Cochran to discuss why Chicago’s public institutions are all feeling financial pressure and where these structural deficits come from.

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Why Doesn't Chicago Ever Have Any Money?