Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
It’s a sad sight and I’ve watched the real time decline. We also have the you-know-what acronym on a good percentage of the boards. Hint: last word is Marxist, no matter what they actually call it. Who is going to want to go the restaurants, etc., which will not resemble the former experience? Recovery will be difficult, and from now on competing with the socialist structural push which hangs in the air.
“A campaign to welcome everyone back begins this week. The Loop’s 80% dip in traffic is turning a corner.”
Downtown Chicago is a disaster. I’ve been down there a few times since the riots and there’s nothing going on. The boarding up is not the problem, it’s that no one wants to come back to Chicago. I’d be shocked if Chicago ever returns to 80% in my lifetime. I’m moving my small business interests out of Chicago and many others I know are too.