Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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More than 18,800 Chicagoans experienced homelessness on a single night in January — a threefold increase over last year that was largely driven by 13,900 asylum-seekers who had no permanent place to stay.
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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.
Live in a tent with no mortgage, property taxes, and free healthcare. Or having to get up early every day to go to a job where you can watch your check disappear paying a mortgage, property taxes, and health care insurance. Pretty close call.
Should we assume you are joining the homeless to enjoy all the benefits you’ve described, or maybe you just are one of the more socially privileged who just loves to complain as your go-to hobby? Oh, don’t bother. Why not take the more gracious path by trying to be grateful for what a good life you do have by comparison instead? After all, we are told that perfection belongs only to the chosen few in their next life and certainly not here on planet earth.
Hmm.. working for a living and having your money pilfered from every angle to support those that choose not to do anything ( and pretending to be happy about it) with their lives is a privilege . Novel concept.
It’s a privilege to be alive and healthy. Anything beyond that is a bonus. Be grateful and spread some cheer to others every chance you get. Time to do so keeps diminishing for all here. Don’t be an ingrate; it’s never becoming.
Rev Robert Tillman returns, I know you feel that three people reading will send checks for 50 large somewhere to help.
If you give it away then you join the tent crowd, give some speaking in tongues
And it will be the cherry on the sundae.