Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Commentary: Illinois’ megaprojects bill should go no further. The effects would ripple beyond the Bears. – Chicago Tribune*
David Greising, of the Better Government Association: "And as happens in Illinois too often, the legislature could well pass a momentous bill — one that could shift hundreds of millions of dollars in tax burden from megaproject investors to their neighbors and even the state — without serious study of the knock-on impacts on property owners, local governments and the state budget."
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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.
What a joke our state government is.
Buckner has a nose for the deal, I don’t think
he has a nose for anything else but how much he can grift for himself and close friends.
The gov has him on a short leash but I
believe the Bears are already gone they
see through Buckner’s bullsh..along with the rest
of the communists in Springfield.
Funny isn’t it , our gub doesn’t want to lose a team worth billions and does nothing for the state economy. But doesn’t give a shit if normal people taxpayers lose their homes. Yet we we vote these clowns in .
JB doesn’t care he doesn’t want to be the presidential candidate that lost the Bears.