Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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150,000 Illinois households may lose federal food assistance beginning May 1 – Capitol News IL
Sen. Graciela Guzmán is the sponsor for SB3277, giving one-time $600 payments to families who lose SNAP funding due to the new work requirements, as well as SB3167, which would extend eligibility of Illinois’s Victims of Trafficking, Torture and other Serious Crimes program to certain immigrants if they are not eligible for SNAP benefits due to H.R. 1’s new citizenship or immigration status requirements.
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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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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.
How about Kate Maeher donating some of her
500,000 yearly salary or the rest of the upper
management of the food depository who together
with Kate get over 5 million a year on everybody’s
taxes.
good scam if you are on the gravy train.
Make it a $600 signing bonus for getting and keeping a job for at least year.
No benefits for able bodied people or illegals.
$90,000,000 for a sympathy card in contravention of a federal policy! Since it is in contravention of federal policy, the source of funding is 100% Illinois residents who actually pay taxes, rent, grocery bills, medical bills, etc for their families. Who deserves more sympathy?
Tatiana , the victim, has 3 children. No mention of the FATHER SUPPORTING HIS CHILDREN . That’s the problem. Also, illegals are costing Illinois BILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS MONEY 💰. Democrats are good at SPENDING TAXPAYERS MONEY on their narrative.