Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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“We celebrate in Illinois when we get an improvement to our credit rating that still ranks 50th out of 50,” state Rep. Andrew Chesney said. “Our biggest issue that we have in northwest Illinois is funding our current infrastructure and our current responsibilities.”
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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
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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
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.
Why even bother spending millions for a train line for 75 passengers a day? You could fit 75 people onto a bus and do that trip for hundreds of millions cheaper. They want to spend millions to connect to Dubuque which is roughly the size of Mt. Prospect. It makes no sense.
75? Less when JB the Hutt and Alyson Arwady re-implement their worthless mask mandate on public transit. Then we’re back to running the trains and buses mainly to keep train crews and bus drivers busy hauling empty seats back and forth.
What the consultants won’t say is that the lion’s share of the startup costs is to install Positive Train Control on the old Illinois Central route. The system isn’t needed on lines that don’t have scheduled passenger service, so the Canadian National tracks this service would use were exempted from that unfunded mandate. This technology is frighteningly expensive to install and maintain and the already flat broke IDOT would have to fund most of it, with Federal taxpayers picking up the rest of the tab. The operating shortfall is simply excused away by transit advocates as normal for rail passenger… Read more »