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Chicago Police officers will get at least one day off every week under a new policy announced approximately 24 hours after Inspector General Deborah Witzburg released an analysis that determined that more than 1,000 officers were scheduled to work 11 or more consecutive days between April 1 and May 31.
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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.
Watch this closely, you’ll learn the secrets of dark magic! How is Brown going to cover everything with extremely limited resources? Racing around the streets with lights and sirens? Hmmmm……Labor Day weekend! Will the little devils use the Play Pen for disposing inconvenient bodies? All the catch basins are full!
A police detective friend from a district on the near North Side told me in five short years his wonderful job as a cop turned from the happiest and most fulfilling job he has ever had to a nightmare of terrible leadership, common sense defying policies, exhausting work hours, and constant misinformation fed to him, to his colleagues and to the public. He can’t wait to get out and get away from the “idiots and incompetents” running the CPD.
Political promotions and affirmative action hiring have consequences. The leadership of the CPD isnt even bothering to rearrange the decks chairs on the Titanic.
The communists running the police department have destroyed it on purpose. Because really, the communists running the system want to live in the world they are creating.