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On November 18, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the state, behind heart disease and cancer. Between March and October, the governor had said, the virus took more lives than "the next two highest causes, strokes and accidents, combined."
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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
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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
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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
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Third highest cause of death?
Surprised it is not the highest considering that all the deaths since the beginning are mostly C-19. The state, The hospital, The doctors all get more money from the government if it is C-19 deaths. So the person who got bit by a snake (because it “can” happen in Illinois) actually died of C-19 not snake venom?
There have been 50 percent more deaths of people that are under the age of 49 dying from violence in Illinois than have died of C-19. But they probably attributed these deaths to covid.
Liars figure and figures lie.
As the governors hand picked director of the Illinois Dept of Public Health stated, anyone who dies and has Covid positive results is listed as a Covid death. So, walking down the sidewalk and you are struck by lightening but have Covid antibodies your death is from Covid. Crossing the street and get hit by a cement truck, Covid. Depressed from the unending lockdowns and you use a firearm to commit suicide, Covid. Time will show that deaths from heart attacks, stroke, kidney disease and a host of serious diseases will have dropped significantly during the Covid outbreak when in… Read more »