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.
I’d surmise that nearly all of those permits are for infill speculative housing in the wealthier Chicago suburbs. The Chicago area, where most of the state’s population lives, has reached the outer limits of its growth. This boundary appears to form a semicircle running from Antioch through Woodstock, Huntley, Elburn, Yorkville, Minooka, and Manhattan. Everything beyond that is simply too far out.The rest of the state is seeing negative growth in its handful of small population centers as residents leave or die.The newest residents, migrants and illegal immigrants, are packing two families into a single unit in the denser urban… Read more »
That’s probably fairly accurate. I’m in one of the wealthier western suburbs and near me I know of at least 7 homes under construction or recently constructed. One was a vacant parcel the others were teardowns, all of them $1M+.
There is more than a few developments west of Aurora.
Yes, we are in agreement. As I said above, Elburn and Yorkville, and drawing a straight line between the two, which is otherwise known as “47”, and is west of Aurora, is about the outer boundary of the western suburban sprawl, and goes a little further west of 47 up further north.
Some of the little towns adjacent to Route 47 west of Elgin (Pingree Grove, Hampshire, etc.) have seen some really good growth. New single family homes as well as these three story town house monstrosities that provide more dense use of the land. All are sold as soon as they are built.
I’m surprised it’s as high as it is. Pritzker, Democrats, and the public union Bosses have done everything you can do to kill off private investment. In CI what’s left of contractors they go around begging for low bid government ‘make work’. The homes that are built are large and expensive. Very few young professionals stay. So many people trying to eek out a living doing landscape.
Only Alaska is worse than Illinois. Yet they say there is a housing crisis in the state? Something isn’t adding up.
No clamor of people moving to JB the Hutt’s Illinois and desiring a permanent address there.
Depressed demand, unlike Florida and Texas. The Carolinas appear to be where money is running, while westerners are abandoning the nutball states of Washington and Oregon in favor of more sensible Idaho.
I have an in-law for whom the fake pandemic lockdowns were the last straw, he moved his apparel manufacturing business to S.C. and took most of the 20 employees and their families with him. This is happening every day in the bolshevik occupied state of IL. It wont change until the voters throw the anti-business communists out. That will never happen though, so might as well vote with your feet.
Illinoisans, WAKE UP!
Would you build anything unsubsidized here?
That applies to businesses, too. Who would move a business to or start one in Illinois unless it was subsidized by us chumbolones?