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The victims were at a gathering in the 1500-block of South Keeler Avenue just after 12:50 a.m. when a black Jeep drove up, and multiple unknown suspects were seen getting out of the vehicle with guns, police said. No one was in custody later Sunday morning.
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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.
Sad part is that this is just another weekend for Chicago — #FAILEDCITY
Seeing the backyard decorated, people, women, just wanting to get together over some pops, let’s you see how sick and depraved these criminals have become. These woman’s lives, and their family’s, will never fully recover, and the black-so-called-leaders, look the other way. Sad.
Sounds like a nice place to raise family.
Mass shootings are defined by which definition is used. Sometimes it’s 3 shot, sometimes 4, sometimes 5. Just this weekend in Chicago there were several “mass” shootings. A couple of 3 shot, one 4 shot, one 5, and a nine with 1 dead. Every one was ghetto, every one, yet innocent law abiding firearm owners are the problem. Damn White supremacists!
To point out the obvious is a big no-no. Anyone with a few brain cells recognizes that the vast majority of crime is perpetrated by POCs also usually against POCs. That observation is verboten, just like using the sacred n-word – unless the individual uttering the sacred word is POC. And White supremacy is the biggest threat to our country? I think not! Chicago and Cook county are run by POCs, yet every social problem is blamed on systemic racism. Huh? Yet POCs have been and continue to run the city and county … right into the ground. There’s a… Read more »
Those darn Amish kids just funning again….
Need to ban rumspringa
Jeez. Vicious, criminal gang, Black on Black crime. The murdered woman, apparently a 21 year old single mom of two, was also the sister of someone else who’d been previously murdered – https://medicotopics.com/north-lawndale-mass-shooting-nesha-21-year-old-mother-killed-8-others-injured/ You know, if some White scooter-trash buds got together and shot up a group of White women who belonged to a rival gang, it’d be stop-the-presses, ‘we interrupt this broadcast,’ national news from the NYT to CNN-n-MSNBC to Huffpo-n-Drudge and the Daily Mail and Fox. But Black on Black gangland shootings and murders with multiple victims happen every week in Chicago. It would be just awful to… Read more »
It’s easier to understand that they WANT to live like this. A relatively small number of the poorest, most violent black people of African ancestry in Cook County have collectively decide that they want to live on the south and west sides of Chicago and shoot at each other. Everyone else, of all skin colors, thinks these small number of black people are crazy, and they live EVERYWHERE ELSE in Cook County. They avoid the south and west sides of Chicago. If Chicago were serious about crime, they’d treat these people like the public nuisance that they are, and show… Read more »
“….Chicago is crazy.”
Problem is, so is the most populace Zip code in Peoria.
And large chunks of Rockford-n-Decatur-n-Springfield, and everywhere else that 60 years of ‘Great Society’ guvmn’t ‘help’ has created Black communities of resentfully hopeless intergenerational poverty and guvmn’t dependency.
President Johnson was no friend to the black community. Apparently his namesake isn’t either.
Chicago needs real leadership, but chose Brandon Johnson instead.
My heart weeps for the beloved city of my birth. It’s painful to watch … even from a distance.