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Ben Gitis, associate director with the Bipartisan Policy Center, said if state leaders don’t replenish the unemployment fund, they may go another route. “They can cut back on their unemployment benefits, either reduce the duration or limit how much benefits go out as a way of helping rebuild those trust funds."
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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.
Illinois Democrats will NOT put any money from the federal government towards this when they can spend it on favored groups elsewhere. Especially, given that they will just soak employers to replenish the unemployment trust funds. Even though billions were given away to criminals because the state invests almost nothing in its IT infrastructure. They invest “everything” into their PEOPLE. (i.e. – unions). So we, the businesses, get to pay for a government that is freely handing out stolen money by the billions because…who else should pay, I guess? And, “reduce benefits?” I wondered if the person who said that… Read more »
This is a planned event seeking to put fear into those relying on unemployment. At the very last minute Pritzker and the Democrat’s will jump in to save the day with funding. I have seen this so often it isn’t even funny anymore.
I read this article to see if “Illinois officials” might possibly include the Illinois senate or general assembly. But no, only some minor viziers of Pasha Pritzker. It is well past time for elected representatives of the people to go back to work.