Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Burdened by costs of an ICE facility in town, Broadview reckons with a spotlight it never wanted – WBEZ (Chicago)
Finance director Thomas Hood calls the hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexpected spending on police overtime, legal fees and ambulance transfers a “huge deal.” SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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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.
Mayor Katrina Thompson wants Broadview to be reimbursed for OPPOSING federal law enforcement operations. She’s NOT seeking criminal fines or civil reimbursement from the rabble that showed up to block the street in front of the detention facility, confront ICE agents and impede law enforcement, thus necessitating a local police response. INSTEAD, she’s using local taxpayer money to finance lawyer fees to sue the federal government, who will be represented at the expense of the national taxpayers, in a national taxpayer financed forum, presided over by a national taxpayer financed judge, in hopes that the judge will award Broaview compensation… Read more »
How can there be police overtime when police were told not to go there?
Let Soros and his community activism NGOs pay for it. Or any voter that elected the Dems.
This could have been completely avoided with the removal of the Sanctuary City/State insanity.
This was an affirmative choice and Illinois political animals got it wrong. Again.
The village should just do nothing, let the chips fall where they may. The “must do something” mentality is wasting taxpayer resources.