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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.
Loris boy fake cop hating activist con artist phony Jamal Green was on channel 9 sewing racial rhetoric about the people in Lincoln Park jogging and having retail while in Englewood they can’t even go to the laundromat. Well Jamal the people in Lincoln Park are not in constant gang and drug wars and the children actually have fathers in the home not in gangs. Channel 9 is an anti cop, pro criminal apologist for the permanent victim class.
“Englewood, West Englewood and Austin were home to a combined 188,992 black residents in 2000.
In 2015, those same three neighborhoods had 135,831 black residents — a 28 percent decrease — according to Census data.
In that 15-year period, those three neighborhoods combined to see more than 5,600 murders and nonfatal shootings, according to Chicago Police Department data.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/as-chicagos-black-population-plunges-whites-flock-to-near-downtown
May 29, 2017 Chicago Sun Times article by Sam Charles titled, “As Chicago’s black population plunges, whites flock to near downtown.”
The ghetto self cleaning oven has been turned on high. Black lives dont matter to the assembled crowd of ghetto denizens who are shooting, maiming, and killing their fellow citizens at an alarming pace. As of 10am, today Sunday, 13 killed and 37 shot. 90% black, the rest Hispanic, since Friday noon. Amazingly not one police involved shooting. So far this year, 4 fatal police shootings, 6 wounded. The percentage of police involved shootings is somewhere less that 1% of all shootings. Considering the thousands and thousands of interactions with police during the year this is a very small figure.… Read more »
Groot wants it known that she will fully protect the murderers! She’ll keep them safe from President Trump! She’ll make sure it’s the cops who end up in jail and not murderers!
And apparently a 10 year old girl was killed by a stray bullet that went into her house.
Lori, you’re pathetic.
This one’s on you.
Black Lives Matter! Defund the police!
Wow!
Where are all the BLM’rs and ANTIFA corporate and media sponsors now?
The corporate shills are the biggest phonies!
Saturday June 27, 2020 at 2PM a 1 year old boy was shot and killed while a passenger in a car driven by his 22 year old mother in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago (Halsted Street near 60th Street). Saturday June 21, 2020 at 6:25PM a 3 year old boy was shot and killed while a passenger in a SUV driven by his 27 year old father in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago (600 block of North Central Avenue). In both cases the deadly shots were fired from one moving vehicle into another. The population of Englewood (97% black, south… Read more »
This is just a distraction from the real issue: The 9 unarmed black men killed by the police each year.