Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"Johnson needs to stop trying to get rich quick by targeting Chicago’s most productive citizens and undertake the arduous work of remaking the city’s core without gimmicks...He needs to get busy promoting public safety, workforce development, entrepreneurship and the arts, events and other programs that will keep the heart of the city productive. Mayor Johnson, downtown matters, and it needs you to be its patron, not a leech." 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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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.
Brandon Johnson needs to do a great many things, unfortunately he will do none of them.
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Not surprising that the Tribune’s editors stick up for the liberal loon Editorial Page editor from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Or that it was the New York Times that printed Post-Dispatch Editor’s progressive rant. Missouri conservatives are the cause of deep-blue woke-n-progressive Saint Louis’s anarchy and failure. Right…. One of our company’s wholesale distribution centers was in St. Louis – from where we also delivered out to KC. Our retail customers were convenience stores, large hospital gift-shops, university bookstores, prisons, and the like. When Ferguson happened, we started paying a lot more attention to St. Louis, and I started working… Read more »
Mayor Johnson is doing what he campaigned on – Take care of the CTU above all else, and coddle the criminals including illegals. This is what Chicago voted for.