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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.
Now taxpayers need to organize to resist paying ridiculous property tax’s for services not rendered like parents forced into the roll of being teachers/limited police protection for fear of retribution when they make an arrest for anyone of color. If businesses can organize, taxpayers should also band together.
Good idea, but it will be a cold day in hell when anybody gets off there as-es in this state and protest against Springfield and local school districts, for some reason people in this state think there gods. Only reason they won’t speak up FREE STUFF
Just a way that Illinois wants to gather money from their already stretched citizens and business. I do not blame businesses if they leave Illinois. It is not in their interest to remain in this state. What benefits are they getting?
Just speculating, but are some of those businesses paying off the tax collector? As a young lawyer, decades ago, a client asked for help opening an office in Chicago. Several of my older colleagues recommended having the client hire a “Chicago lawyer.” Later the client thanked me because, as he quipped, “in Illinois, it takes a lawyer to bribe an assessor.”
(Since then, “my” law firm has opened a Chicago office and staffed it with long-time Chicago practitioners.)