Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
The average age a Chicagoan witnesses a shooting is just 14 years old, according to a recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association. It’s especially important that this conversation centers Black and Latino kids, 19-year-old Edgar Vilchez said. Last year, 75 percent of shooting victims were Black and 19 percent were Latino, according to city data.
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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.
The link to this article does not work. After reading the stats in the three lines above I know why WBEZ disabled the link.
Yes. Seems to me they have real problems there.
The winning campaign slogan? “Guns don’t give you power.” LOL
How about them grandparents and parents get they kids under control, how about that?