Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Editorial: Illinois is No. 1 in the embarrassing category of bloated government – Champaign News-Gazette
"The Civic Federation report calls for the obvious: a rethinking of how state legislators can serve their constituents by eliminating roadblocks to consolidation and urging local officials to take a broad look at this spider’s web of government units financed by unaffordable property taxes. It’s much easier, of course, to do nothing. But the cost is increasingly unaffordable."
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Darn, Illinois has no more space in its worst-in-the-country trophy room for another trophy.
Actually, having a trophy for the most bloated government in the country means Illinois could discard many of its other trophies for awards that are merely results of bloat; most notably, highest taxes.
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Forced school consolidation is a must.
They any township with less than 20% of the population that’s not in a town or city BYE BYE!