By Bill Bergman, includes “…At $270 a pop, $500 million dollars could buy about almost 2 million playoff tickets. But how much does Chicago owe? By our reckoning, after considering assets available to pay bills, the city has over $24.5 billion in unfunded debt, when including pension and health care benefits promised to retiring employees. How many $270 seats will $24.5 billion buy you? About 90 million tickets, enough to fill up Wrigley Field for about 2,200 playoff games…”
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