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"The City has sufficiently alleged that over many years, Westforth deliberately and purposely availed itself of the Illinois market, fully aware that the firearms would contribute to criminal activity in Chicago," the appeals court said in its decision.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Audio and summary
Lightfoot and her ilk are masters at shifting the blame from the folks in the community actually committing crimes onto someone else. Getting your car stolen by “ funnin “ youths? Sue the car maker. Getting your food truck robbed? Don’t do business in cash. Stores being ransacked by “ not baby Capones “? Put up barriers and hire security at your own cost. Refusal by her and others to admit that the vast majority of crime being committed in CHI/ Cook County is by uneducated, unemployable and uneducated Black people is her legacy. Pastor Brooks is the only POC… Read more »
She’s a politician in a city that’s 1/3rd black in a county that nearly 1/4th black. This is what the community wants to hear. On the other hand, if it is true that 40% of gun trafficking cases in Northern Illinois come from a single gun shop in Gary, IN, and they knowingly sold guns to straw buyers who illegally trafficked guns to Chicago…that’s a problem. Not sure if a civil action is the right way to handle this but who fricken opens up a gun shop in Gary knowing that straw buyers are repeatedly purchasing Saturday Night Specials that… Read more »