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New data shows Loop area retail vacancies ticked down in 2025, marking the second straight year of such development and giving raised hope to some that things may finally be settling.
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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
Trust your eyes, empty store fronts and lack of restaurants in the loop are proof that nothing is getting better, the lies told and continue every
year. Stop the BS, Walgreens leaving the old post
office building is but one example many more in the waiting.
In spite of Mayor 6.6 and company doing everything they can to drive business out of the city. Imagine what a sharp mayor could do for the city instead of the butter knife dull mayor we currently have there?
If true, great! But excuse my skepticism.