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At least 17 people, including a young girl, are dead and at least 72 others have been wounded in shootings across the city over the long Fourth of July weekend. Twelve of the victims were minors and two of them died from their injuries, according to police.
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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.
Why isn’t Preckwinkle taking any heat for this? Kim Foxx won’t charge anyone and Tom Dart won’t keep anyone locked up. Something tells me that Preckwinkle is secretly smirking about the heat that Lightfoot is taking over all these murders. Maybe it’s time for a reporter to ask Toni what if anything the county is doing to help control the violence. Guess it’s kind of naive of me to expect any of our media to actually ask an intelligent question.
They have the city they want.
Almost 99% of those shooting victims were black or Hispanic shot or killed by other blacks or Hispanics. Not one of this weekends shootings involved police officers. The myth of police killing innocent black people is just that, a myth. So far in 2020, in Chicago, there have been 7 total police involved shooting incidents. Almost 2000 shootings in Chicago and 7 involve the cops, all cops, city, county, state, federal. About 1/4 of a percent. Those are facts. Again the myth of blacks being killed by police is a giant myth pushed upon the public by corrupt politicians, news… Read more »
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Black lives don’t matter to Dems. Only black votes.