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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.
Why does this happen?
Because it is not in the white suburbs. If it was it would be stopped.
Face the facts, white cops just drive by black crime. They only pick have EMS pickup the bodies and make reports.
It is over drug sales, the only job that is in Chicago. Businesses have left for greener grass. You can not tax them to death and expect them to stay. And it is going to get much worse.
But don’t you understand that Black Lives Matter?
What the hell is wrong with you!?
I guess Chicagoans have gotten so numb to the weekly news they just don’t care any longer. What do we hear from Lori this week, or last week, or the week before about the scores of murders and shootings? Total silence. Oh, except she says over and over again we have to do better. No kidding. I guess she is used to it as well.
This is one of the reasons Chicago is turning into a third class city– the public officials do nothing and the citizens who voted them in just let it ride.