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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.
After 21 years in the city proper, I decided it was time to bail. I know what’s coming starting in 2020, based on the pension ramp. I moved to SW Ohio, and I’m in a city. There’s an old farm a mile and a half from my apartment, very nice house circa 1845. 36 acres total, yet property tax bill is only 11.3K per year.
The problem is that when liberals escape the chaos they created in one state they move to another state and keep voting for liberalism. And then chaos is embedded in their new state. Pretty soon there won’t be any states to escape to.
dynamite map. look at how low prop taxes are in indiana right across border, and next door lake county-$1,792 avg. know quite a few nw indiana folks w commute into chicago daily or work remote.
This could be by design. Raise taxes so you cannot afford to stay in your home. Sell cheap. Move somewhere else. Then someone gets a bargain. Then assessor reassesses home . Then raise taxes some more. Then sell cheap or lose home. Raise taxes more. Repeat. This is after all Illinois. Just a forced redistribution of wealth.!!!!
Now they want to quadruple gas taxes and license fees for cars and trucks. So it gets too expensive to have a car, how will yo leave?