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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.
Tax payers in the City of Chicago HAVE A RIGHT to SAFE neighborhoods, devoid of Looters, Rioters and Crime!
No you don’t. Shut up and pay your taxes sucker.
If you do not like you can leave.
Move ASAP. Your life will be much better.
Chicago and Illinois is a Goner, DOA.
What Groot is saying is that BLM terrorists have her blessing to threaten, rob and murder ordinary citizens but they must not inconvenience her royal highness
I cal her ‘Smeagol’, myself.
Beetlejuice
Don’t say that 3 times. You know what happens then. Also don’t get a gremlin(or a politician) wet or feed them after midnight. We don’t want hundreds more of them.
There should be a lawsuit filed.
Maybe they could tear her gates down, then have some prosecutor arrest her if she tries to defend herself.
Hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Lori created the monster by taking down the Columbus statues. She and progressive caucus chair Sophia King and the Grant Park advisory council were all in league to give into the antifa/ blm mob. She then gave into the commie CTU. The permanent victim class know she’s weak and she’s gonna feel the pain. She reaps what she sows. .
I support Columbus statues removals.
Because you are a pro domestic terrorist Marxist blm supporter who demanded the removal and was aided by Lightfoot, Sophia King of the 4th Ward and Leslie Recht and Jim wales of the grant park advisory council who are tools of Lightfoot.
I don’t support any of those people and groups you named, sugar. I only support Julianna.
There is something wrong with you.
How nice to have moved away from that socialist area called Chicagoland! These are the good old days, if you stay it will get far worse.
She was misquoted. Her actual statement was, ‘Only I have a right to make sure that my home is secure”
“. . .paid for by slaves of the city/state and with firearms I don’t think others should have.” You forgot the rest
Hey Lori: I have a right to make sure that my home is secure too. But you have defanged CPD so I am forced to resort to exercising my second amendment rights. May I have my tax dollars for CPD refunded?
But she cannot make sure that businesses are secure.
For some people, those businesses are just as important, if not more important, than their homes.
I will take the opposite view. I am an out of the closet Republican conservative. I do not think any “peaceful protest” is within the bounds of “peaceful protest” when it targets a home. People deserve to be safe in their homes. That includes the Mayor of Chicago who fanned the protestors flames last spring. But, it also includes officials of any party. Remember the mobs who showed up at Mitch McConnell’s house? Remember the Republicans being targeted in restaurants. How about the police man in Wisconsin? Where was the Mayor of Chicago’s voice then? Where were any Democratic political… Read more »
Let’s arrest them, charge them with misdemeanors, and fine them. Eventually if it keeps up, a low grade felony…..will Kim Foxx support that?
—‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure’—
Business owners, tax payers, (R)’s, police officers….
Ehh, not so much…
Her home is secure with other peoples time, money, and firearms.
You . . . not so much.
See how that works?
Violent protesters for THEE, but no protesters for ME….”how you like them apples” ….
she sounds like a Trump voter
If she has a right to make sure her home is safe –Doesn’t everyone else?
not in the communist / socialist utopia she wants….you are peon, she is queen and Pritzker is King…shut up and pay your taxes !
Our LGBTQ mayor is receiving threats from protesters? The protesters are harassing a woman of color?!
Racists! Bigots! Homophobes!
Don’t worry all the action in chicago will happen again and again because she will win again next term,because grandpa voted DEM back in the 30’s.Over and over till chicago is ground to a powder.Do you think that the voting will ever be any thing but dem.You are nuts if you think it will be any different.