Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Kim Foxx compared Mayor Lightfoot’s remarks Tuesday to an infamous headline 40 years ago; In 1981, then-Mayor Jane Byrne moved into the Cabrini-Green public housing development for three weeks. At the time, Foxx was a preteen living in the Near North Side housing development. “And I remember the feelings of the people who lived there who didn’t want elected officials doing stunts – they wanted solutions. That’s where we are right now.”
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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.
Sorry for this long post but I need to give some context to Kim Foxx’s recent decisions. Several weeks ago the US military got a ‘tip’ from their sources that a suicide bomber was driving around Kabul for a second attack on US assets. The US military did a precursory investigation, surveilled the guy on a drone for an hour, and dropped a bomb on the vehicle. It turns out the ‘tip’ was from the Taliban, and the ‘suicide bomber’ was a guy who worked for a NGO. The bomb wiped out his entirely family including multiple children. Oooops! First… Read more »
I disagree with your last sentence.
In my opinion at least a majority of members in a community are law abiding and a main reason more witnesses do not provide a statement to police and / or do not testify is they fear retaliation.
Sure, there is certainly some level of fear, but many community when asked why they don’t cooperate simply say something to the effect that they hate and distrust the police and they don’t get involved in other peoples’ business. Think about it from the perspective of a 40 year old mother of three in Englewood. The police are constantly harassing and arresting her children, and her relatives and her community members. Her kids/nephews/neighbors are always getting locked up, and put away, and their lives are disrupted for a long time with fatherless children, a single mother who gets no help,… Read more »
In a lot of instances Grandma can get a ride to dialysis from a community service agency, the state will pay in some cases, etc.
Anyways my money is still on fear.
And fear of getting shot is the #1 reason most move out of the dangerous areas.
Now that is my experience.
Perhaps you are correct.
There could be a published report or study on the topic.
With open borders the problems will probably get worse, not better.
Thank you for the well written and emphatic perspective about how the criminal justice system can hurt criminals and their families. Victims of crimes and their families suffer even worse than the criminals, who often live much longer than the lives they have stolen or severely traumatized. Maybe grandma was depending on her own child to take her to dialysis, before a senseless moron mowed that child down. The criminal justice system will never be perfect and certainly needs reforming and better training, and this work can be color-blind, but the choice is ours: who is more important, criminals or… Read more »
You are probably right about the various rationales that some will use to prefer letting criminal behavior slide. But what does this say about a culture that reasons this way?
The grandmother who needs a ride to dialysis stands a good chance of standing over the dead body of her chauffeur, her grandson, in the street. That is a very possible consequence of allowing criminal behavior to continue uncontested. The victims of violence are often perpetrators of violence themselves.
Short term gratification/convenience without regard to potential long-term consequences. It is a very bad way to run a society.
Kim Foxx needs to be fired! Complete scumbag who is destroying Chicago!
Kim Foxx is the elected Cook County State’s Attorney.
Her four year term expires in 2024.