Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Just ten days ago the city announced new food vendors to feed migrant residents in shelters, and emphasized they had picked vendors that were charging $15 to $17 per person per day, a move they said marked a significant decrease from the $21 to $23 the city had been spending. The Food Depository bristled at the categorization, quickly pointing out that “because of private donations, the actual costs were well below the price claimed by the city.”
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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.
Wow…See…Chicago is “saving money”. Mayor J and his crooks are all good stewards of our tax dollars. This has moved from outrage to the absurd. There is no end in sight and this is unsustainable. There are so many signals/events happening in the Country today that point to this Country being at war…but a different sort of tactic than tanks rolling down main street. The very fiber of the country is changing for the worse. Logical thought is gone from our elected officials, we are being pushed to be preoccupied with stupid issues like “what is a woman”, LBGQ-MOUSE and… Read more »
Catering meals for people with no discernible work skills that left a warm climate to sleep in tents and vermin infested shelters, some of whom have been arrested several times under several different identities. That’s rich.
THIS CITY NEEDS TO TAKE CARE OF ITS OWN FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Why exactly has the city agreed to provide catered food to illegal immigrants for an unending period of time? Snap benefits even for the most needy isn’t enough to provide three catered meals a day every day of the month.