Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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.
If Chicago, and every other Illinois taxing body with defined-benefits obligations were forced to fully fund pensions NOW, right now, as a matter of law, complacent/ignorant/indifferent/complicit taxpayers/voters/non-voters would have no choice but to change their/our wicked ways.
It would start with a rollback to reasonable standards (fiscally responsible, relative to the means of the taxed community) for mandated public school service provision.
:Distrubing findings” You know what is even more disturbing ? How about a failed compliance attorney who became an ambulance chasing Boca Raton “Securities” attorney and a B grade consultant writing a garbage report with no real data inputs, regurgitating a discredited Oxford study and fanning the flames of the already troubled PABF. These clowns are worse than bucket shop boiler room slime. I hope the coppers aren’t paying these skels one penny. Every single underfunded plan in Illinois is underfunded for one reason. The State didn’t make their contributions. Period. Every plan has a worthless IOU from IL and… Read more »