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“Asking people in my area to show proof of vaccination is almost asking them for a fight,” Carmella Coqmard, owner of The Foodie’s Spot in the Grand Crossing neighborhood told the Chicago Tribune. “People are very, ‘Don’t do that.’ They’re getting very defensive. I’m losing customers.”
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
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.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
These morons voted for Toni Preckwinkle – just because she is black – and now we all suffer for their poor voting habits. Ironically, she hates all of her voters too. She thinks of her constituents as peasants. “Take your shot peasants or no J&J Fish for you”. Toni actually thinks like this. Honestly, it’s so demoralizing. This crazy person in the county made this rule and there’s nothing, nothing I or anyone else can do to force to her change her mind. No amount of phone calls to my commissioner or faxes to her office will do anything, and… Read more »
This is the person who brought Cook County the soft drink tax – which was later rescinded. So, she can be moved when tax revenues are involved.
Can’t believe they didn’t consider the damage they would do to eateries catering to the black community. They knew full well what the vaccination rates were by community, yet threw those restaurants under the political bus.
I agree – Mrs. Preckwinkle doesn’t like us – any of us.
I wish someone would sit down and tell her that just like the soda tax, she’s made a very poor political decision with this mandate so close to her primary. She doesn’t realize that in a few short months, if this mandate is still in place, she’s likely to lose most if not all of the black and hispanic non-union vote to her primary challenger ZerlinaSmith-Members. In the primaries it only takes a relatively small number of votes to oust an incumbent. Toni is handing her opponent an easy victory because few in the black and hispanic communities want this… Read more »