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The office vacancy rate across Chicago’s suburbs hit a record high of 32 percent at the close of 2024. That marked a rise from 30.2 percent the year before and a significant increase from the 22.1 percent observed at the start of the pandemic.
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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.
Apparently no company wants to expand in far-left, business unfriendly suburban Chicago. Few new office based businesses want to form in far-left, business unfriendly suburban Chicago. And apparently few residents want to go into the office in far-left, business unfriendly Chicago. It’s over – this is the doom loop.
Skull and Cross Bones for the commercial Real Estate market in Illinois.
High taxes make for high rents and chase away customers.