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About half of Chicago households surveyed for a recent poll done by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health said the impact of COVID-19 has left them facing serious financial problems, with Black and Latino families particularly hard-hit.
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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.
It isn’t only minority neighborhoods feeling this pinch. With freakishly high property taxes and sales taxes, and the threat of a progressive tax, EVERYONE is feeling this shutdown and it has to stop. Alot of citizens, not just minorities, are having their pay reduced because no one can contract business and nothing is back to normal – even if you are an “essential” business. Illinois is barely limping along as it is, and purposely making companies go bankrupt isn’t in anyone’s interest – no matter how Pritzker chooses to phrase it. How long does the state need to be at… Read more »
No one can doubt the unspeakable cruelty and heartlessness of the Dictator’s shutdowns
I believe it was Vance Packard who wrote a book titled A Nation of Sheep back in the 1950’s. Since then, the flock has only become more dependent on Mother Government. Too many people get rich tossing crumbs to the flock!
How China virus impacted people isn’t the primary question.
The primary question is how will people react to the man made disaster that is the reaction to China virus?
Will they continue to vote for the same people who willfully and intentionally took away the livelihoods of millions like them for possible political gain or will they wise up and do what they can to purge every one of them from elected office?
Only one way to purge them?
Don’t be silly they are going to vote Dem until the city is gone to mummy dust.Watch they will!!!!!
Mummy Dust. Love it. Ragweed-Pollen-Mummy Dust. Next week I have a doctors appointment and I’ll ask him if he has something for me since I am suffering from chronic mummy dust. He will probably give me a ballot with only republicans on it.