Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Conditions improved in Illinois as 30 percent of small business owners experienced rent troubles in June, down 10% from May. The survey showed that the top three states with small businesses facing rent troubles in June were Texas, Florida and Arizona, all of which are over 50 percent.
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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.
Pritzker and Duckworth used $536 million in taxpayer money to entice Chinese battery maker Gotian to build a plant in Illinois while small businesses, paying those taxes, struggle to pay rent. I guess the politicians prefer working with foreign elites over supporting small local entrepreneurs.
They get a per cent don’t they?? Why would they care about their own?? True dem
I just met a small business owner who told me that since biden was elected his costs to run his small office cleaning company have risen 45%.
Big Corporations in bed with Big Government has destroyed small businesses.
Small business have a very hard time surviving. Work 100 a week for 30 years and lose your business with nothing to show for all of your efforts. That is a story that is told over and over again.
Dems don’t care……..they want everything you own….1 way street