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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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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The writer of this tired trope of “structural racism” will stake her career on keeping this lie going, as will all the Black politicians in Chicago who control the “structures”. I would love to see Bob Woodson of 1776 Unites come and talk to Chicagoans about how their Black leaders have betrayed them. Mr Woodson said to Tucker Carlson July 25: “What low-income blacks are facing isn’t institutional racism or bigotry. It’s systematic neglect and abandonment and treasonous behavior. Bigotry is not their biggest challenge: It’s treason from their leaders.” Also: “I believe the salvation of this country is going… Read more »
Black leaders have zero interest in seeing black people become successful. There goal is to keep them all poor, uneducated, and most of all angry. So they will keep voting Democratic.
If they all started becoming doctors, lawyers, and business owners, the next thing you know they would all start voting Republican.
Gemini well said.
The writer touches on the phenomenon of Blacks leaving the city for the safer working and middle class suburbs but doesn’t go any further with this.
I think she should ask them how they developed the resilience and talents needed to progress in life, and how their stories can be models for those who want a better life too.
Instead of trotting out this same old blame it on white supremacy trope.
Structural racism?
Lets see. Lori Lightfoot, mayor (black). Chgo Chief of Police (black). Dorothy Brown, Clerk of Courts (black), Toni Preckwinkle, Pres Cook County Board (Black). Tim Evans, Chief of Cook County Courts (black). Chief of Chicago Fire Dept (black). I could go on and on. Bottom line, its hard to find a WHITE person in government these days.
Institutional racism? Structural racism?
Just a bunch of 10 dollar phrases being used by 10 cent minds.