Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"In the meantime, Gov. JB Pritzker has opened up 230 hotel rooms for migrants as local citizens demand a change in state and city policies. Given the anger of such residents, the city council has found a solution: just don’t let them vote. It appears something of a trend around the country."
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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.
Don’t trouble your little minds peons, your betters will make all the decisions for you!
Wow, prigs don’t want to hear the will of the people!
The citizens had their opportunity to vote on election day and will again next election day. My guess is the same old retreads will be re-elected. Why would I expect anything different?
Turley writes of “increasingly crowded conditions for schools.” Yet Wirepoints have documented that many Chicago government schools operate at only a small percentage of capacity.
Maybe Turley watched too many episodes of Mork & Mindy. Exidor on the show kept saying You’re crowding me when no one was around. LOL
Are those rooms JB opened up at Hyatt hotels? Asking for an illegal friend.
There’s a mansion on Astor Street available but without toilets. I’m sure the owner is will to put up a few Port-O-Potties to help out.