Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon guest on AM560 with Chris Krok discussing CTU lawsuit agains Illinois Policy and more
August 19, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
This a unbelievable story. six months of research and it still doesn’t answer any questions. nobody is taking charge and completing the task of helping the home owners . every single government person just deflects the whole issue waiting for the next person to solve and take care of it. Shameful!
Yes, truly unbelievable. We wrote several times about it nearly three years ago. Naturally, the problem was ignored: https://wirepoints.org/to-speed-chicagos-lead-pipe-replacement-end-the-obscene-overcharge-its-paying-wirepoints/
The cost is only six times the national average? That’s all? Just like ‘affordable’ housing units at over $600k each. And highway construction costs at four times the national average. And the CTA extension estimates at five times the national average per mile. Who thinks spending money in Chicago makes sense any longer? The infrastructure here is collapsing with no solution in sight.
Why, Unions and corruption.
Madigan and Burke have cousins in the plumbing business in Chicago.
Is this question asked with a straight face? Really? Why is it so expensive? Do any of you need an explanation? Who writes this crap?
I was a plumber for 50 years. Just me, a laborer, and a guy with a backhoe could easily do one water service line replacement in less than an 8 hour work day. I doubt that we ever charged more than $4,000. That didn’t include any hard surface replacement or landscaping, if needed. But we didn’t leave a mess. I guess we didn’t charge enough?
Because it takes a dozen highly paid union members to do the job that can be done by half as many.
You didn’t really think a toilet seat costs $75,000? It’s Chicago. Even you people can connect the dots. Think about the sheer number of kickbacks and pay-offs that need to occur to get the job done.
Because its ‘the Chicago way’…
The crew replacing the pipes = 1 person in the truck, 1 person in the backhoe, 3 people standing around watching 2 people in the hole doing the work…
Because Somebody’s Cousin has to do the job.