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Comment: Believe that number if you want. We suspect it is far larger and growing for an indefinite period. And the city claims it will not have to revise the city’s 2020 spending plan.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
All this and the fat pinky ring aldermen are screaming that they don’t get enough asphalt money for their ward. Well I guess that makes sense, asphalt laying is a well known currency of favors and votes in Chicago. Going back to the 1950’s.
Layoffs and slashing city employees would go a long, long way.
Except to Oswego Willy (who lives in Oswego) who says that every city employee is essential, even librarians in closed libraries. There’s just no way to lay off anyone.
You know, the tone-deafness of the well-off CapFaxers is astounding.
All this mayhem, and they’re going off on some reported being banned from the Guv’s presser, like it’s a huge victory or some such.
Millions of their fellow Illinoisians are suffering tremendously. They seem to think that this will not touch them. But it will. Even the most protected will feel the bite from Illinois’ overreaction to the ‘rona. Trickle down is real, even for the fiscally well-padded and plumped.
The misery is running down your way, fellas. You’ll feel it soon.
I read the banned reporter asked critical questions. The one question I heard her ask was if JB saw the disconnect between freeing actual criminals from prison while at the same time threatening to put business owners in jail. That got her ‘banned’. That’s like .000001% of the kind of stuff Trump deals with on a daily basis.