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The shelter would have displaced 40 residents of micro apartments in a mixed-use building at 1140 West Wilson, where Mike Sullivan opened the 2Bears Tavern on the ground floor in 2022, following a half-million-dollar renovation and a quarter million in start-up costs. "We had concerns about the viability of our business, that it would not be able to survive in a situation like this," he said. "This was a one-of-a-kind, never-tried-before social experiment."
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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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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Another social experiment. Oh goody! They’ve all worked out great since 1964.
Former alderwoman Shiller hoovering in background. Note report that BJ has some business relationship w/Shiller’s son.
Streeterville, you ain’t kiddin’; here ya go, two articles, excerpts below. In the first there’s a photo of former Alderwitch Shiller canoodling with current Aldercommie Angela Clay: “As the above photo (taken recently by a friend) illustrates, Helen Shiller is right behind Angela Clay, “counseling” Ms. Clay (who she has been grooming for years) and acting as shadow alderman…” Everything Old is New Again https://www.uptownupdate.com/2024/02/everything-old-is-new-again.html?m=1 “With Shiller-mentum in the air, let’s jump in the Uptown Update time machine and revisit what we said just over a year ago in surveying the Aldermanic race: ‘For her part, Ms. Clay has little… Read more »