Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Melvin Mockabee was enjoying a sunny afternoon in Millennium Park and said the city's attributes far outweigh its challenges with crime. “Chicago is a great place, it’s very diverse,” he said. “Chicago has literally everything to do here.”
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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.
They’ve gaslit the public on Russian pee tapes, elections, jabs, Covid, mandates, science, and FBI raids with the sole purpose of accumulating more power and control for their benefactors.
Why would gaslighting Chicago’s livability be a challenge?
Did the two old guys and the woman in the photo get mugged shortly after the photo was taken?
Yep, Chicago literally has everything to do here. It also has everyone too afraid to do it. The media keeps trying to spin their story, and the victims keep piling up.
When you can fire a cannon down Michigan Avenue and not hit anyone, you can bet that hellhole is exactly the opinion that people have of Chicago
Chicago’s great!
Unless you’re one of the unlucky ones who gets picked off from the herd and devoured by the lions.
No lions in that group – they’re all jackals.
So predatory they routinely eat their own when they’ve chased the herd away.
Typical late morning on a downtown Chicago sidewalk – 6 wolves and a cornered sheep deciding what to have for lunch…..
OMG, the article is called “People in Chicago disagree city is a ‘hellhole’”
Yet the first person the journalismist interviewed was Jeff Bruce, “an Illinoisan who currently lives in Tokyo.” LOL x 100, I stopped reading the article after this. The first ‘man on the street’ isn’t even a Chicago resident and lives in Toyko.
“The crime that we have is not equally distributed throughout the city.”
SO it’s OK if black people have high crime? LOL, if this is what passes for ‘news’ these days, i’ll head back over to the Gateway Pundit for more reliable news..
Debtsor, I may be the only Wirepoints blogger who has actually lived in Detroit, Chicago and Japan (Osaka).
I’ll assure Wirepoints readers that violent crime is almost unheard of in Japan. Chicago homicides alone exceed the entire annual total of homicides in Japan.
And here’s a real game changer. Most Japanese actually know their father!
Oops, I forgot to add that in Japan, murderers are considered cruel and unusual and are hanged. Now there’s a concept Kim could tryout to if it could possibly work here.
“Know their father”. Best line of the month! Thanks Old Joe.
If you stopped reading you didn’t miss much. The only other interviewee said Chicago is great because diversity. End of article.