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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.
What pointless virtue signaling. This rule or law or royal decree is completely unenforceable. Democrats don’t know how to accomplish anything meaningful and only know how to whine and complain.
I would say the Dems are idiots, but their strategy to rule Illinois has been a huge success.
All city cops and firefighters who have their days off in the following week should travel to northern Tennessee, stay one night and return. Per mayor they must quarantine for 14 days. Let’s see how that’s gonna work out.
Where is Snake Plissken when you need him? “Escape from Chicago” will probably the next movie.
Only he doesn’t escape.
Who wants to come here anyway and be shot? Now they will say the Quarantine kept unwanted visitors out. Yeah right. Between Pritzker making Illinois sound like a camp for infectious diseases and now the shootings, we will be a ghost town this summer. Our elected leaders our doing a fabulous job.
Her emergency powers expired on June 30, few will abide by her bullying and tyranny.
This woman is a sub moron!
Does she really believe that she has the authority to cut off all Inter-State Commerce!!?
WTF?!!!!
How can the Illinois ARDC possibly allow idiots like this to continue to be licensed attorneys?
Right. Let’s see the IMMEDIATE lawsuits on whatever Federal laws are violated here.
P.S. GOOD one with the ‘sub-moron’
I see that you went with the hyphen in “sub moron”. I tried looking up whether or not to use it and finally decided not to.
I hope that she does not feel insulted by my decision.
SIMULTANEOUSLY with the takedown of Prickster’s whole order back to Apr. 8. Hmmmmm….. :-/~
Another unenforceable rule (especially if you don’t fund a police dept). Does anyone running things in Illinois have a brain?