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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.
A few middle manager schmucks at ComEd will take the fall, and Madigan will stay and get off. Offering a bribe is illegal in Illinois, but a Pol accepting a bribe is perfectly fine here.
Wait and see folks, Madiscam has a lot of strings to pull
Madigan will be reelected IL House speaker. No doubt. He controls the IL Democrat money and anyone who votes against him will receive the Ken Dunkin treatment.
Wouldn’t it be priceless for the Republicans to put him back in charge and let the Democrats wear the mantle for a couple more years…
I’m sure there’s some that can be bought, we’ve seen it before.
As long as Madigan hold the purse strings on the Democrat party cash hoard I wouldn’t count him out on anything.
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends come inside come inside
Was at that concert at Arie Crown Theater April 19,1972. Emerson running up and down the aisles playing a portable keyboard. Those were the days.
Yes sir they were the good old days.
I doubt it was that concert since that album (Brain Salad Surgery) wasn’t released until Nov. 1973. However, It might have been the Soldiers Field concert in the summer of 1977 I went to. They were amazing. No running with a portable keyboard although he was strapped into an organ than spun him around and around upside down
ya may have are years wrong after all it was a long time ago, but it is good to see that there is still a group of folks that still remember the good old days in life. Rock on dude.
…and the Reds do. Who the f*** cares?
It’s time to get out.
The smart ones already left.