Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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The city is in full compliance with approximately 5% of the 4-year-old court order.
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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
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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 cops are nice guys compared to the Daley Sr. days.
How about da Feds put a Court Monitor over da corrupt Illinois Dems in this cesspool of a state!!
It is disingenuous for civilian boards to have power over police. They lack knowledge and experience in policing, weaken law enforcement, and demoralize officers.
Chicagoans should thank their lucky stars that there are still men and women willing to wear the badge in Chicago.
In the past there was fierce competition to become Chicago police officers. No more.
I think that there should be randomly selected boards to oversee lawyers, doctors and politicians. Randomly selected citizens who have absolutely no knowledge or experience in the particular field they are overseeing. Let’s see how that works out.
They should have a bigger concern on why nobody wants to be the Chicago Police anymore.
I agree. Any person with brains hearing the words “federal court order” will run the other way.
The reforms the federal govern wants are generally terrible for policing. And the result is higher crime everywhere and the collapse of cities.