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"While this may constitute an emergency for the city of Chicago it does not constitute an emergency for me and the 8th Ward," said Ald. Michelle Harris.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Meanwhile I can find no mention of the ILGOP filing lawsuits to stop this travesty- particularly giving health care to illegal aliens.Gov. J.B. Pritzker said since August, the state has provided $240 million for arriving migrants being transported from places like Texas. * But, wait, there’s more… Matthew Doughtie, manager of emergency management services for the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications, told alderpersons 13 options have been identified as additional shelter locations, “none of them great. … Each of them comes at a cost, be they financial personal or political cost. But, they’re options nonetheless.”Gov. J.B. Pritzker said… Read more »
They got shouted down at the meeting? Sounds like a bunch of conservatives showed up.
Democrats are flipping to conservative everywhere I look.
A lengthy article illuminating the many credible problems lots of civic-groups and ordinary citizens have with hosting migrants/asylum seekers/undocumented immigrants in Chicago, that never even once mentions that this problem is entirely of the Illinois Democratic Party’s creation.
Pritzker-n-Brandon could fix this in an instant by announcing Illinois is no longer a sanctuary state for illegal aliens who have managed to physically cross our borders, whereupon they were called something else.
This rather than being returned to the other side of the border that they crossed illegally.
After May 12, things will get much, much worse. ALL of it caused by the Leftist Democrats. Enjoy Chicago.
More drama. Why not utilize existing underutilized resources for housing and shelter? Why not repurpose the jail? Warm and dry, I think. Not being a former alderman, I’ve never been in jail
Why not Deport them. Where is the ILGOP in filing lawsuits to stop this scam of our citizenry.