Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Mary Richardson-Lowry, corporate counsel for the city, said the ordinance violates the Separation of Powers Act. ShotSpotter supporters on the City Council also said they were prepared to fight the mayor in court over the issue. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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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.
Top Cop seems to like his job.
He won’t go against the mayor’s wishes.
Other wise, he’ll get (resigned) fired.
Johnson throwing a temper tantrum because people don’t agree with him and he might not get his way
Walkie talkies on a stick. You can’t really say it’s worthwhile or not, the inspector generals report pretty much says so.
“Because the ability to match ShotSpotter events to other police records, including ISRs, is so limited, it may not be possible at present to reach a well-informed determination as to whether ShotSpotter is a worthwhile operational investment as an effective law enforcement tool for the City and CPD. Better data on law enforcement outcomes from ShotSpotter alerts would be valuable to support the City’s future assessments of whether to further extend, amend, or discontinue its contractual relationship with ShotSpotter.”
He is a Black man married to a Black woman raising Black kids on the west side of Chicago in the best freakin city in the world that Nixon started on the path to ruin and Daley sold off the parking and tollway to make it worse, and damn it, he wants what few clamor for and a large majority of the council opposes and he knows far better than the council and many residents in crime ridden neighborhoods what…………the CTU thinks is good for them.