Some hope Google’s future downtown office will also rejuvenate the Loop, where many older office buildings have high vacancy rates and shaky finances. But it’s uncertain whether Google alone can revive the city’s urban core. Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
I predict that Google will do zero work on that building.
By 2026 the loop will by a ghost town made up of section 8 housing and vacant storefronts.
Google Thinks That Highly In Demand Tech Workers — Who Can Do Their Job From Home — Will Want To Commute To Chicago’s Crime Infested Loop, On The Crime Infested, Drug Infested, Chaos Afflicted, Piss And Shit Splattered F**k-Mare CTA