Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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The bill now under consideration in the Illinois House of Representatives would allow workers to begin receiving unemployment benefits after two weeks on the picket line. Currently, striking workers are ineligible to receive unemployment benefits. 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.
As long as the union exclusively pays into IDES and gets tagged with the expensive experience factor and has union funds confiscated to pay for it, fine.
If the burden is placed on any employer? Nope. IDES is paid mostly by non-union businesses, and this would be an illegal Takings from non-union businesses to subsidize willful dereliction of duty by striking employees (Kids, that’s what a strike actually is).
Illinois elects its dumbest. Every time.
another day, another business-unfriendly Illinois bill
If there’s any burden that can be placed on employers, they will find it.
And on the same page I read “John Deere Quietly Choosing Indiana and North Carolina Over Illinois”