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Mayor Lori Lightfoot said on Sunday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy", "The CDC has been helpful, but the White House, HHS, DHS, they have not even had a plan, and I knew that we were on our own. I knew that from the earliest days when they were diverting flights from China to airports across the country, Chicago being one of them."
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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.
It is a case of crying wolf so many times that there is no one that is believing them–oh but those who have their masks over their eyes.
The only Plan lightfool and Pritzger have is shut everything down. Go inside your home.
Well You don’t have to be a Doctor to know what happens once you let people out of their homes, Dugh, the virus will spread, once again. I am sick and tired of being the pawn of this Democrat, Communist Game!
Those who are highly susceptible to the Chines Virus should sit their butts at home and let the rest of us go about our business!
For the best view of mind blowing ignorance, she should look in the mirror.
Vampires have no reflection.
Democrats ie Communists, Created, Bought, spread and are re-spreading the Chinese Virus!
I guess now she too has an MD after her name? She acts in her videos so now she is acting as an MD.
There all actors everyone of them morons idiots fools horrible horrible people, doctor Ezike is on now she deserves a academy award
All Three, Pritzger, lightfoot and the so called doctor, deserve the Communist sheeeeeet show award! Who is the best Dicktator and who can pull the wool over the sheeps eyes the longest!