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“This weekend has been really tough, and it was coming off of a lot of movement as well of people out of districts and into shelters,” Anna Gomberg, a lead volunteer organizer, said.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Dulce Hogar Chicago!
Gov Abbot should send jumbo jets full of migrants to blue democrat cities.
Agreed. The faster these migrants can be shipped to sanctuary cities the sooner the entire nation will want to fix this problem.
Not being mentioned is the health of these illegal aliens – no vaccinations is common. Chicago will see the return of illnesses that were common in the Great Depression. Hopefully Democrat pols will share in that.
Biden complains about TX, FL sending migrants to sanctuary cities — but it’s Senile Joe that is using your tax dollars to do the same thing
https://cis.org/Arthur/Biden-Administration-Floods-Cities-Released-Migrants
That’s what sanctuary cities do: they welcome DC’s self-inflicted invasion.
There’s a price to be paid for all that virtue signaling. Time to pay up, Chicago.