Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
This is pitifully weak. Community involvement? It’s your spawn and your community destroying your neighborhood. Revitalization? Go see Lori, she’ll give you a bag of cash to shut up.
The decline of North Michigan Avenue gets a lot of press, but several neighborhoods like the one highlighted in this article are also suffering. Lori and the City have no strategy to help. Heavy handed Covid restrictions by her and the Gov killed lot of the small stores, restaurants and bars. Without much capital to tide them over, the small entrepreneurs won’t be coming back. It is sad to say, but the African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities are the ones being hurt the most by this Mayor– who was supposed to be their savior.
If West Garfield park is revitalized, where will suburbanites buy their drugs? She’s got to run any plans for gentrification past the cartel first, they control the flow of drugs into the neighborhoods.
I understand there are a few whores who’d love to see the neighborhood revitalized; more traffic, more business! It’s a win win! Maybe someday we’ll have a casino!