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Joe Shanahan, owner of the Metro, said there’s no end in sight. “We just need an umbrella right now because it’s raining. It’s gonna stop eventually, but how long."
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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.
The people who attend these venues are all pro blm types. This is still a capitalist country. Let them blame blm and an idiot government in Illinois and Chicago closing down Chicago and Illinois in order to get senile Biden and racist Harris elected. I don’t feel sorry for them at all.
Uh, not quite. Good amount of patrons for Metro, DoubleDoor, Aragon, etc. are Gen X and older and attending shows purely for the talent, 20-30 years before blm was a glimmer in Soros’ evil eye.
Free markets for free men. In capitalism we don’t support a failed business model. Too many waitresses, bartenders, musicians, actors, comedians, artists and community activists and other silly jobs that are not now and were never intended to be full time endeavors or careers. The above need to be in school or trade schools trying to get real jobs. The government can no longer subsidize their childish games and poor choices at the expense of taxpayers.
I love(d) Metro – saw some great talent there going back 20+ years. Also large gatherings of hundreds of people half of whom recognized each other.
Closure of these unique, niche music venues will be a major part of Death of a Great Midwestern Metro-polis.
I wonder who all these independent club owners and their customers voteD for in the last governor’s race? Elections have consequences.
Not one venue was closed by COVID. They were closed by the cruel edicts of a fat, stupid, lazy, slob Dictator
And Demon Mini-Me Leadfoot, aka Groot/Gremlin/Beetlejuice.
Remember who screwed you! The Chi-coms and the Chi-town coms!