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"Eulogizing and celebrating a bank-robbing cop-killer who was broken out of prison and escaped to Cuba?" Ald. Brendan Reilly wrote on X. "I remember a time, not so long ago, when the teacher's union was focused on ensuring fairness at the bargaining table for our public school educators. That's the job."
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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.
CTU is a progressive, far left activist group, not a labor union. They should be designated as such. Replace CTU with a real labor union who actually prioritizes education, not politics and power.
You are consistently spot on, using common sense absent among our “leaders”. Keep it up!
I want to see the members of ctu publicly denounce the leadership.
That and $ 5.84 will get you a small coffee at Starbucks. Means nothing. Start cutting the crime on the street.
Wait until the CTU DEMANDS that schools are re- named for Angela Davis, George Floyd, etc. maybe even a Latino revolutionary and Marx/ Lenin here and there to keep it diverse.
The rank and file and the students are merely tools for the CTU to acheive some feverish revolutionary agenda that is as detached from reality as a Roger Dean album cover, but much less pretty.