Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Ironically, this area (and slightly to the west) was called Little Hell during the 1870 to the early 1900’s as it was a slum, full of poorly built tenement buildings and shoddily built workers housing full of poverty stricken immigrants who spent much of their time stabbing each other outside of saloons. This is what our urban planners want again, to turn the Mag Mile into Section 8 housing for immigrant, to once again, engage in petty and felonious crimes at wholesale levels. And they say history repeats itself…
They should’ve stopped calling it The Magnificent Mile some time ago.
It’s now called The Mug Mile by many.
I guess they are expecting big things from Google.
One fifth of the Mag Mile affordable ( Section 8 ) housing. Nice.
But theres no stores to rob, Gangs will just need to steal more cars to go to the Candy Land (burbs).