Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"No single act has been more responsible for the surge in youth violence than the closing of Chicago Public Schools campuses for over 17 months. Between 2019 and 2022, CPS has seen enrollment drop by nearly 37,000 students. That is over three times the number of enrolled students in the 50 near-empty schools former Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed in 2013."
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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.
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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.
The sooner a criminal dies the better. This program works against public safety.
I think I have heard this before
You must educate them with job skills. Make the teachers do what they never did in the first place, “TEACH”. Paid the highest price per student and got nothing for it. Should be a law against this.