Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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State Rep. Maurice West, chair of the House Ethics and Elections Committee, said that was just a matter of scheduling and there was nothing untoward about how the measure passed by gutting and replacing a bill about child welfare. “Get their petitions like everyone else and run in the primary and/or try their hardest to … be a write-in candidate, there’s nothing more accessible than that to me,” he said.
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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.
To IL Democrats, there is nothing wrong with swapping the proposed order of business out with a self-serving, totally unrelated proposal. Nope, nothing wrong with that.