Chicago Treasurer Barnstorms Neighborhoods for Investing

Kurt Summers Jr. leads a one-man roadshow across Chicago, preaching a message of hope and revival: Financial doom isn’t imminent, even as deficits persist and about $50,000 in unfunded pension costs hang over every city household.

“All those things make it feel like the sky is falling a bit,” Summers, who became treasurer Dec. 1 and is up for election in February, told residents last week in the South Side neighborhood of Pullman.