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Asked about a proposed reboot of Bring Chicago Home, the real estate transfer tax defeated by voters in 2024, Mayor Brandon Johnson said he was looking at all forms of progressive revenue, even after several ballot measures failed. “In the meantime, we’re going to be focused in on our efforts in Springfield to draw more progressive revenue so that we can continue to make the necessary investments to build safe and affordable communities,” he said.
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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
Ok. Mayor Cliff Notes. Here’s municipal financial management 101, or how to manage an operating entity. It’s nice to have adolescent dreams about the things you would do with Other People’s Money. However, a competent municipal manager would realize that his socialist utopia has failed as these ‘progressive’ schemes always do. It’s over, Mayor Notes. Time for a reality check you have never faced. We begin with a sober assessment of the funds already being confiscated from taxpayers. This is the amount available for all municipal spending in a fiscal year. No tax hikes. No taxing retirees. You already confiscate… Read more »
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if he instead said “Due to the lack of revenue needed to build safe and affordable communities, and based on the unconscionable waste seen in Minnesota, we are going back and reviewing all funding to find waste and fraud in our budgets, rather than take even more of your money for more fraud and waste.” But he didn’t.