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Special Service Areas are governed by commissioners, appointed by the mayor, who approve budgets and hire a service provider. The proposed SSA along Michigan Avenue would have a three-year term with an anticipated budget of $1 million for “increased security, customer attraction and beautification." from an estimated tax rate of 0.0317 percent.
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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.
Notice how Madigans boy wannabe mayor Reilly is all in for shaking down taxpayers instead of standing up to the criminals empowered by Lori and the extortion continues by the domestic terrorist blm Marxist organization. Reilly refuses to stand up to crime as he is constantly shaking down developers. And he’s a Lori ass kisser.
This almost sounds like a protection racket situation out of the history books. The looters destroy, pillage and burn with no police action taken. Then demand cash, call it tax or whatever, to be used to featherbed a group of connected individuals that naturally will include some highly paid administrators to solve the problems imposed by the looters.
Big Jim Colosimo, Jonnie Torrio and Al Capone are turning in their graves with envy.
The SSA security folks will only be effective if they are allowed to shoot looters.
Lori, Sophia King and the progressive and socialist caucuses took down the statues. By giving into the mob, things got worse. The loop, mag mike and Gold Coast is inundated by roving bands of youth. Lori and the Democratic Party has enabled and empowered the domestic terrorist Marxist blm scum and we all suffer financially and personally.
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This is shear idiocy.
It will be interesting to see how many businesses hang around to pay this “BML Tax”…