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“If you’re not wearing a mask, you’re doing it wrong. You have to wear a mask,” Pritzker said. “If I told you you could take a pill that would reduce the likelihood of you getting COVID-19 by 80 percent wouldn’t you do it?”
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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.
He’s fabricating this on purpose – that is the aim of the expanded testing. To keep his Reign going. Total FRAUD. By all measurements. But no measuring tape is long enough for him.
It’s been confirmed the BLM protests (which Pritzker helped lead) and rioting and looting are responsible for much of the ‘surge’ in positive Covid cases.
Pritzker – Stop spreading the Covid by organizing protest mobs!!! This should be easier than wearing a mask in a uncrowded park!
I’d take a COVID-19 shot and pill.
Good you can be the test dummy
I hope you take then too.
Wonder if all the looting-protesting-outright mayhem-tearing down statues by hundreds of people have anything to do with it?
No, because the virus only magically appears at Trump rallies.
But the Dictator should remove his mask for his mug shot