Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants fund academic enrichment opportunities in high-poverty communities during nonschool hours. But because the state education board miscalculated the amount of grant funds available — resulting in a shortfall of at least $12.4 million — neither new nor renewal funds were available this school year, and funding for next school year will be limited at best. 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
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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.
Get used to things like this as the budget will become more and more directed towards the pension shortfall. I wonder why the Tribune doesn’t explain this? Naturally the situation is old news yet I am so often amazed at how many do not understand the budget issues including those who often retort things like “what about all the lottery money” making me so often ponder if it is the media or the lack of concern by the Illinois populace
Aw shucks, subsidized daycare is on the way out…..