News flash: Chicago is utterly incapable of managing its own finances. That’s why the rest of the state gets pummeled with higher property taxes (the city dwellers pay a third of what the rest of the state pays), and water is more expensive outside of Cook County.
The state props that city up. It wouldn’t surprise me if this turned out to be true.
The fiscal responsibility of Mare Groot - ain't it grand?
I would ask more questions. Years ago, from a company I worked for...I was issued a check but told in a blunt way that I had to hold the check for two weeks before cashing it.
Don’t people normally get in trouble for writing bad checks? But the city does it.
Hard to believe they would still be using paper checks.
I received a check that bounced and the bank charge me a fee. The bank will love this if lots of employees received bad checks.
As I watched the Soviet Union collapse, a reporter noted that the final straw was government being unable to pay bureaucratic workers.
Federal bailout for Illinois not enough to cover state’s unpaid backlog and recent borrowing
Yes, there could be an improper or missing endorsement or some similar problem. I know when people deposit checks with their cell phones they have to put a very specific endorsement on it.
Blue state blues strikes again who knew.
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/fin/supp_info/Uncashed_Checks.html
Well, Chicago does a website on how to resubmit uncashed checks.