Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Neil Olson, general counsel at the Illinois Office of the Executive Inspector General, said the review is “systematic,” involving multiple state agencies and the other governing bodies under OEIG’s jurisdiction, which include state universities, boards and commissions, and regional transit boards. In late June, a spokesperson confirmed that at least 30 IDHS employees were in various stages of the disciplinary process for inappropriately taking PPP loans.
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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.
If anyone did anything criminal they should be fired and prosecuted not “disciplined”. Look what happened to Trump when he had questionable valuations on his loan application. Funny thing Kwame hasn’t found anything yet.
No big surprise
Illinois Democrats hire lazy goldbricks, greedy grifters, and real-world unemployable friends and relatives to work the state. This was the core group for COVID con-artists
30! And those are the ones they caught.