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Comment: Be sure to watch the video. It would be comical if weren't such a sad failure of the Cook County Court system.
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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 a buffoon. And sad to see that the overwhelming majority of folks standing in line are minorities. but hard to have sympathy for them– since they overwhelmingly voted to put incompetents like this in office. Just another example of people getting what they deserve when they vote the way they do.
Just another Chicago Democrat official who is incompetent. Yet, people continue to vote for these fools. Would be good to compare to how the Wayne County/ Detroit courts are being managed – that is the proper benchmark for Cook/ Chicago.
Where’s any of the blm/ woke hypocrites protesting against the absolute flop of city, county & state gov services. From incomptetent life long-career gooles hacks like brown & evens, to the complete disaster at ides & idph that effect poor folks of color as well as all.
Dorothy Brown is the biggest tool on the planet. Savages always play the race card when they have nothing left to argue.
Why is Dorothy “goat meat” Brown – who is even more corrupt than Mike Madigan – not in prison? She had been the subject of many FBI investigations yet she is still in office? Is the FBI that incompetent? And where is that Justice Superhero Kwaumie Raoul?
More corrupt than Madigan, she will be the one who takes his place.
She is not in prison because the fbi and RINO Lausch and other incompetent Obama us attorneys screwed up the case. Why hasn’t Madigan been indicted? Because Lausch will wait until Biden and his BLM chosen vp get in and the whole matter goes away do Madigan and Burke.
Here’s the five minute video posted today on the WGN News Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQnTzJd2wg
WGN reporter Ben Bradley (white) interviews Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown (Black), who is not a candidate for re-election.
Democrat Iris Martinez (currently a State Senator) will face Republican Barbara Ruth Bellar in the November 3, 2020 general election.
Corruption talking.
Race card bs. Try again.
No point. The entire 52 card deck is made up of race cards.
Yeah the Barr testimony on Tuesday is a prime example of all these card carrying agitators.
Cook County Government. The biggest social program in the state. Every job is a patronage job. What a waste of space, time and effort she is…but after 20 years of wasting tax payer dollars, she now gets to retire. Another waste of money.
This is a reflection of just how expensive the Blue patronage model in cities like Chicago is – inefficient – incompetent – and corrupt. This is also why illegal immigration is so expensive – these folks require a lot of services (I get it, we don’t want people destitute) – and under the Blue patronage model those services are really expensive. This of course cannot be stated often as it is poliitcally incorrect. But the financial numbers don’t work in Chicago and Illinois, and the demographic elements are not in their favor either.