Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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One real estate research group said the Mag Mile has more than a 19% vacancy rate, up from about 11% in 2019. The Loop now has a 26% vacancy rate, also up from an historic low of less than 10% in 2015.
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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
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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.
Rename it “The Cabrini Kim Mile” as a tribute to the person most responsible for the vacant stores (looted multiple times and shoplifted to death).
What was once described as a beyond glamorous shopping experience has become vacant store fronts, like an abandoned laundromat.
Suppose you are a retailer looking for a new outlet for valuable merchandise that might be fencible under the right circumstances. You would naturally like to tap into the high income Chicago market. As in many urban areas in the US now, prosecutorial discretion and reduced police activity have reduced the risk to pilferers of shoplifting in Chicago and Cook County. Downtown is convenient to the affluent urban shoppers living downtown as well as being at the center of the regional transportation system, but it’s also similarly convenient to organized shoplifters. So where in Chicagoland can you place a retail… Read more »
This city has no plan!
Stop the crime wave 1st Lori!
Of course no mention of *why* the vacancy rates are low… this is simply an ineptly – written “article”…
But, but but isn’t this a targeted area on Biden’s “Build back better” agenda?
“They call it the Central City Recovery Roadmap to revitalize the greater downtown area.”
More communism and central planning, with a road map. Maybe they’ll call it
Stalin’s..Lori’s 5 year plan?Over even better, this roadmap can be a 14 year plan like communist China. That led them to such a great place, with over a 100,000,000 empty condos scattered around the countryside and an economy that is about to collapse.
Yea OK, let’s get a big helping to reimagine to resurrect the city. Yea, we have plan? Let’s give Lori the finger. GLTF.