Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
I’ll bet this would have been cheaper if they waited to buy after the Dem convention
The risk Brog is taking is that he still believes there are small employers want low-cost, no-frills downtown office space. Those tenants are few and far between, especially when they can lease cheaper and nicer office space closer to home for the same or less cost. But that’s what investors do, they take investment risks, and they pan out or they don’t. If they aren’t investing, then there’s no reason to even come into the office. The larger issue is that now, four years after the start of ‘rona, is that the downtown office model is a HUGE PITA. My… Read more »
Man is Chicago in trouble.
Chicago will end up looking like Detroit on steroids before this thing is all over.
Props to Crain’s for cover the sad story of the urban doom loop candidly.