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Whoever becomes mayor for the next four years will face enormous challenges and a daunting transition from a school board selected by City Hall to one elected by voters. Other issues include what to do with expensive, underused or vacant buildings; how to reverse years of enrollment decline; and ensuring stability for a system with deeply strained finances. Then there’s the matter of the union’s contract, which expires in 2024 and whose renewal risks another protracted fight. It all could add up to one of CPS’ biggest inflection points. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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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.
Looks like woman in brown coat is busting some kind of Chuck Norris move.
Stacy’s doing a parody of Uncle Sam’s “I want you” poster. Except it’s not to serve your country in time of peril.
No, it’s for you to pay more property taxes!
CPS is a money laundering racket for the crooked corrupt Chicago Teachers Union and Cook County Democrat Party.
One day we hear there is a teacher shortage the next day we hear there is a student shortage but meanwhile there is no shortage of financial demands from the educators
Nationwide, K-12 enrollment is projected to decline 2 million students by 2030. While CPS enrollment will eventually stabilize, I can’t imagine CPS enrollment expanding during a period of overall decline. The trend is not Chicago’s friend.
Give all the teachers raises and more days off. Increase the pension dollars, shorten the time to be able to collect. Keep empty schools open, it is only taxpayer dollars and who cares about students or taxpayers???
Dissolve CPS. Fire all CTU vermin. Restart. School vouchers for all.
Waive magic wand, make money appear, add 50 IQ points to students. It’s fun to make up things that won’t happen and pretend it’s a solution.
It’s more fun to keep demanding more money while simultaneously claiming that it’s impossible to teach these children, since they would need different parents and 50 more IQ points.
so bring solutions?? PPF Let’s here them?
Consolidating schools would save a lot of money but it failed with an attempt to unite Carver and Fenger high schools on the Southside because of gang affiliations and income shaming of those from the Altgeld Gardens projects and was abandoned.
CPS is not a place for education. It is set up to provide great jobs, benefits and HUGE PENSIONS at a young age for adults. The last thing CPS cares about is educating students.
They should be paid by performance.