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The teachers union has already seized on the issue. The union says that based on its analysis of documents it obtained in a legal standoff over which employees are required to report to schools this fall, half of the district’s schools have air circulation system deficiencies. Less than 5% of schools have air purification systems, it says.
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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.
The CTU will not allows schools to reopen until all CTU members are guaranteed immortality
Of course the ctu would seize this opportunity to make more demands. To things even more difficult for the families that need to be at work anything to drag this stay at home order out. These teachers are way too powerful in this city, they should not be allowed to paralyze an entire city or government. They have more power than the damn governor and mayor. I suppose it’s only right seeing they endorsed them and they seem to answer to them.
And the lying phony reformer Lori will give in because she needs the lazy minority teachers and the white socialists to get re-elected. She’s all in now for the permanent victim class.
Ok what next toilet checks breathing checks but holes it will never end in this hideous state