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The change comes as a new study shows the number of older immigrants without legal status in Illinois is expected to grow exponentially in the next 10 years.
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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 is amazing that the LEGAL taxpayers have to pay for the ILLEGALS. It is all most can do to pay for their own health insurance but JABBA, Madigan, Durbin and Duckworth all invite the illegals in on everyone else’s dime.
This is great. Now my aging uncle from Guatemala can finally get that sex change it always wanted.
Wanted? I think you mean entitled to!
Raise the income tax to pay for the healthcare of 55,000 illegal immigrants? And Pritzker thinks other states should bail out Illinois? Pritzker and the Chicago Democrats are living in a fantasy land!
Lets see, “immigrants without legal status” means ILLEGAL ALIENS. Illinois is bankrupt how can the politicians justify giving free health care to those who are not even supposed to be here ? Guess what, who will pay for this? the IL taxpayers of course ! Do you get the suspicion that the Democrats running this state are more interested in ILLEGALS than the hard working US citizens who do not get such benefits ? I do….something smells rotten in Chicago and Springfield once again…
The solution to bankruptcy is to take on massive new spending
What a great way to spend other peoples money in Illinois.
Democrats virtue signaling on the taxpayers dime. Disgusting. Vote these vermin out in November.
Leave Illinois.