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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.
If Black Lives Matter succeeds and defunds the police, what is going to prevent Austin gangbangers from rioting, stealing, and committing other acts of aggression and violence in Oak Park? That colorful mural might result in blood stains. What if divesting any of the police budget results in increased crime, is that an acceptable trade-off? How are the police pensions going to be paid in full if less or no money goes to the police budget? Police pensions are already underfunded just about everywhere in Illinois. Remember, the state constitution has a sentence stating that retirement benefits cannot be diminished… Read more »
Black lives dont matter to the gun toting ghetto gangsters that are killing other blacks, whose lives dont seem to matter, at a record pace in the demoncrat run city of Chiraq. The facts dont lie. Almost 80% of all homicides in Chiraq are black on black. The evil white racists, along with all other races other than Hispanic, account for under 5% of homicide involved situations. The racist, evil, no justice no peace police have been involved in a total of 7 shootings involving all races in 2020 even tho there are thousands of interactions between the police and… Read more »
I’m just wondering why this is news?
I mean it’s not like they said “Blue Lives Matter”…
No one should be allowed to use streets as billboards.
Stop giving special privileges to anything BLM related.