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"Madigan is at once the most powerful and the most hated elected official in Illinois. But unless you’re one of the 108,000 residents of his Southwest Side district, you don’t get to vote for or against him. Meanwhile, the fair tax is the most important issue on the ballot this fall. It shouldn’t be tied to Madigan."
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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 memory serves, Himself was Richard I’s point man at the ConCon in 1970. The flat tax could not have been passed there without Hizzoner’s acquiescence conveyed probably thru Madigan.
What an extremely biased article worshiping the graduated rate income tax hike. This unfair tax should be shot down on its own. The poison of Madigan has nothing to do with it; its an awful all idea all on its own. Pritzker is frantically counting on it but Illinois Bankruptcy is the only solution.
I think McClelland is just a general interest writer who once in awhile writes a pro-tax article.He wears his progressive creds on his sleeve.