Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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“We’re not a bubble,” said Jadine Chou, the school system’s safety and security chief. “CPS is connected to the whole city, and we’re connected to older people, younger people.” Last year, nine children 17 years old or younger were killed on a weekday in the hours that students head home — between 2 p.m. and 4:49 p.m. That does not count a 17-year-old Kenwood Academy student who was killed while on his lunch break or the shooting outside Schurz High School that left a teenager critically hurt. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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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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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.
If Javontavious has a 9mm pistol with an 18 round magazine and he shoots Qy’Dauntre 9 times for disrespecting Javontavious’ baby momma, how many hollow points are still in the firearm?
This is a trick question and the answer is 10. I saw Javontavious on his social media page load a round into the chamber before he slapped the magazine into his illegal gun. He started out with 19 rounds. Had he remembered to flip the full auto switch the answer would have been zero.
Hope for Chicago is not lost.
New York City was in dire straits back in the mid-90s when Mayor Guliani took over and aggressively pursued minor crimes (graffiti, jaywalking, public urination, etc.), officers engaged in stop and frisk, criminals were arrested and locked up. In a matter of a few years his policies turned New York City around.
Crime decreased to about half and New York City became a livable city again.
Let’s hope whomever wins the mayoral election can follow Guliani’s example and reverse the trend that is taking this great city down the tubes.
Not in your lifetime.
Sorry Pat, but I think Chiraqis like it this way. They keep electing dem progressives who only know how to destroy civilzation rather than improve it.
“Crime decreased to about half and New York City became a livable city again.”
And then New Yorkers eventually elected Bill De Blasio, and later Eric Adams, as their mayor and the city fell back to “Escape From New York” levels of crime.
If NYC can’t keep from falling back to their old ways, what hope has Chicago?
There’s nothing comforting in this article. It illuminates an awful tragedy, but then goes on at length describing how the people and institutions responsible for making the decisions that have caused more students to be shot and murdered all agree that they should pretty much do more of the same stuff that already hasn’t worked very well. Lots of talk about doing more for the victims. Very little about what should be changed in dealing with the criminals who shoot and murder the victims – who are not infrequently also students. You can’t help but being wrong-footed time and again… Read more »
Also, these problems are the community itself. They are shooting at and killing each other. The legions of strong single mothers, the matriarchy that runs and raises the children of the community, have almost no control over the men and sons in their lives. They do little to prevent or stop their sons, boyfriends, baby daddies and cousins from gang-banging and committing a life of crime. Then they complain that the government isn’t doing enough to stop their own relatives and progeny from anti-social behavior. There’s a level of dysfunction in these communities so deep that it might not be… Read more »
These people have normalized killing each other. They’ve got no one to blame but themselves. The kids in my neighborhood aren’t killing each other. The Juarez shootings were gang related, the kid approached them and asked for gang affiliation and the victims responded incorrectly. They are the gangs that control their neighborhood. It’s not the Russians or Chinese invading their neighborhood causing the violence. It’s them. The gangs are their sons, their uncles, their baby daddies, their cousins, their boyfriends. They are the gangs that control that neighborhood. To act like these problems are anything other than their out of… Read more »
In the Hispanic, Asian and white communities, people step forward to aid law enforcement. A perfect example is the Juarez shooting.
In other communities law enforcement doesn’t get that level of cooperation and those communities complain that murders aren’t solved.
That’s the huge elephant in the room that no one dares bring up- they are doing this to themselves. Until that simple fact is acknowledged, nothing will change.
The Chitty of Chicago doing what it does best, letting crime run rampant. Cops do nothing to stop it and why should they? Not paid to serve and protect. They are paid for showing up and driving by drug dealers. They only make out paperwork. CPS is not safe and do not educate, the whole system is a complete failure. It is not going to get better as more and more money is going towards pensions and not students.