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The department processed more than a million initial claims between March 1 and May 2, compared with 78,100 initial claims during the same period in 2019, state officials have said. The department also has processed more than 50,000 claims under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program to aid the self-employed since that system went live May 11.
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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.
800am clock in 801am what’s for lunch another hard day sweetheart at the job, how was lunch good 2 hr break
Say what??–, the states bringing in private sector workers from Deloitte to ides call centers while the state afscme ides workers are sitting at home doing who knows what while collecting fat checks??–crazy!!!….when is someone in the media going to file the foia’s to find out what all the afscme hero’s are doing?, meanwhile, in todays jb covid press spin jb says the state workers can work from home indefinitely….outrageous