Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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“As it stands, we are one of the most integrated communities in the nation,” Village Board President Vicki Scaman said at a recent meeting of the Oak Park board of trustees. “But we could lose that integration if we become less and less affordable.” SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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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.
“But we could lose that integration if we become less and less affordable.”
Time for Oak Park affluent and upper-middle-income residents to contribute more to the cause.
Nobody wants to live in Oak Park or Evanston anymore. They used to be batsh*t crazy but tolerable as the radical leftists were generally counterbalanced by the silent majority. But no longer. The word is out these places are radioactive toxic for most tax paying people.
Same thing for the People’s Republik of Evanston. They want to emulate Oak Park’s hare – brained policies: City’s electrification working group plans to survey residents in August https://evanstonroundtable.com/2023/07/31/citys-electrification-working-group-plans-to-survey-residents-in-august/ “The city’s Building Electrification Working Group plans to survey Evanston residents in August about their familiarity with and concerns about prohibitions against natural gas connections in new construction. The committee, previously the Natural Gas Phase Out Working Group, met for the second time July 31. The committee’s goal is to eventually draft legislation codifying those prohibitions. But first, they’ll be issuing the surveys in August, then holding both a larger town… Read more »
Oak Park’s race based Marxism is collapsing under the weight of its own insanity