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"Short-term programs or police crackdowns won’t be sufficient...'You may need to get a generation of people through good programs before you start to get traction,' said Maryann Mason, director of violence and injury research at the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at Northwestern University."
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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.
No it won’t. Bring back Al Capone and his bunch. Chicago was actually safer under his rule than Lori Lightfoots.
Simply leave your police to do their job, make new prisons and throw away the key and in a few months you’ll see Chicago as clean as can be if you get rid of the Democrats who are destroying it.
Lock up the criminals Foxx and lightfoot that would be a start!
ask groot if it continues to talk to it’s white 90 year old white boss soros…
Nonsense, you can’t reform gangbangers and get them into a normal lifestyle; they all need to be locked up and then work on making the next generation better. Individuals can make their own decisions within the system get into a normal lifestyle as the crackdown on gangs continues. The question is how to you change a culture that glorifies thuggery, so that even the most law abiding and civil of individuals get mistaken for the thugs?
I couldn’t agree more, an upvote seemed insufficient. The idea that “programs” will reform gangbangers is beyond ridiculous. Nothing will change until the violence is stopped, and that will not happen until the violent perpetrators are removed from the community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbC9Mb1NUa8&list=PLbKsqaJ1iyOG7g8dFaSiDl-j_bJ_TF3Uz Wooski “Computers Remix”|Cloutboyz Inc.|Official Video by @ChicagoEBK Media This drill (chicago style rap) music video has 21,498,500 views since it was uploaded Jan 2, 2018. The rappers in the videos have guns with scopes, lots of $$$$, baggies of illegal drugs, they talk about killing people. It’s a step above and beyond from the mainstream Gangsta Rap of the 1990’s. This is a fairly accurate description of street life in Chicago. Lori Lightfoot is delusional if she thinks the allure of the gangster life is going to be overcome by ‘programs’, community involvement. They’ll basically telling gangbangers to give… Read more »