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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.
Wake up Illinois. Vote Republican. All politics are local. Say no to electing democrats.
Durbin has been in the Senate since the middle 1990’s and well lets just say he has been living off the Illinois citizens as a result and not doing good for them.
What is going on is not packing the court.
He and the rest of the Dems –if they do not get their way –cry foul.
Another career polutician pandering to his base. In the dictionary next to “waste of space” is a picture of Dick Durbin. Just go away Dick.
When McDonalds fills a job vacancy, does Durbin accuse them of packing the deep fryers?
How do you squirm out of questions about court packing? Simple, just give a new definition to court packing.
When is Durbin going to answer for the no bid contracts by his who political operatives? Joanna Klonsky is a Lori insider who has gotten away with it again.