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From August through late November, the roughly 100 city employees assigned to investigating the cases managed to reach and interview only about 16% of Chicagoans who’d tested positive.
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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.
Let’s be honest. The hundreds of millions of dollars to buy votes… I mean support contact tracing have been blown already…
Contact tracing doesn’t work because the minority patronage workers hired by Lori and the black caucus are not doing their jobs. They are nothing but “precinct captains” for Lori and the machine collecting a paycheck which is theft of services. They are stealing taxpayer dollars and are allowed because they are machine workers only required to get the dummycrat vote out.
If nobody tattles on friends, family and associates, how would covid tracing work? Nobody is a mind reader.
Contact tracing was one of JB’s keys to stopping the Covid spread in Illinois. Another one of his failures he will never acknowledge. He has very thin skin for such a large individual.
Let’s see…infected patients that are spreading the virus that are yet to show symptoms are spreading the virus for days. Then those same patients once finally showing symptoms go and get a test and wait for 3 to 4 days to get the results. They find out they’re positive and have been spreading the virus for the last week. Do people actually believe that you can contact trace this virus to the point of stopping the spread when 1 in 15 residents are currently infected? Do people actually believe that if everyone just answered the phone for contact tracers then… Read more »
Contact tracing may work in African villages, but it was never going to work for a widespread virus in an urban area. Our public health establishment seems to be lacking in common sense.