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The Chicago Resilient Communities pilot, which provided 5,000 city residents with $500 for 12 months with no strings attached and ended in 2023, was funded through federal pandemic relief funds. A second city pilot, rebranded as the Chicago Empowerment Fund, is expected to launch sometime in 2025, according to the city’s proposed budget. The program will again serve 5,000 “low-income families and returning Chicago residents,” and provide $500 for 12 months.
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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.
Audio and summary
There’s a message about government efficiency in there when you think figuring out how to give away free money makes you a genius.
So the City that has a billion dollar budget hole is going to throw free money around. Genius!
Failing empires believe that a larger grain dole to the masses will solve it’s problems…
Hmm…..could receiving money for producing nothing contribute to inflation?