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The combined purchase at the 9 W. Walton St. building represents the highest price anyone has paid this year for a Chicago-area residence, and it’s the fourth-highest price anyone has ever paid for any home within Chicago’s city limits.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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I told you these two billionaires were in a peeing match. JB’s bought Ken’s condo at a loss was JB’s way of giving Ken the middle finger as he left Illinois.
I’m convinced JB bought this to stem the flow of negative publicity. Catch and kill the story before it creates unwelcome questions about property taxes, pension debt, opportunity cost of investing in Illinois. Also. Keeping Griffin out of the news also muffles why he allowed the world’s premier hedge fund to leave the State.
Most likely the toilets or something else will be removed in order to qualify the property as “Uninhabitable”. It will be remodeled for years to avoid paying any property taxes.
Or…..He bought the place to house his best friends the Migrants to show us all he is not such a bad guy after all. NOT! Happy Thanksgiving
Did the luxurious condos come with toilets?