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Voters are not deciding on the rates when they cast their ballot in November. The rates were passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Pritzker last June.
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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.
One concern I have (among many) is that by removing the language currently in the constitution that limits the number of income taxes that can be assessed on income to one, the door opens to a state income tax (flat or graduated), and then another “Emergency COVID Recovery Surcharge” (or similarly named tax) assessed on that same income.
Nothing to keep that from happening.
The “multi-ways” of tax on one’s income under a new progressive scheme has been hammered home by Wirepoints’ analyses.
If this passes, it is the sign that all hope is lost and to pack… I really hope we can avoid this and make some common sense reforms.
Makes me sick. These pols work for us!!! Not the other way around.
Uh No. It IS the other way around and has been for a long time. To paraphrase Marlowe from “The Wire”; “You want it to be one way. But it’s this other way.”