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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.
Sidewalks won’t fix Illinois business. The problem is that Illinois has: : — the most business hostile laws/regulations in America; — the most burdensome tax structures/tax rates in the US; — a failing educational system at all levels; — the worst fiscal basket case among all 50 states; — out of control crime/soft on crime Democrats that have made law and order impossible; — crooked and corrupt unions that have a stranglehold on government; — the worst corruption of any state/one party misrule; — a Democrat state energy suicide pact that will give Illinois 3rd world power blackouts; and last… Read more »
Brought to you by the same people who brag about funding tree equity.
The author is clearly upset that somebody else is getting the money that should go to his group.
Even worse, our progressive politics is TOXIC. Even mentioning IL to most of the country makes them cringe. We are excluded from half the country’s labor force because our ‘brand’ is so toxic anyone center or center right would never in their right mind consider moving here.
Not necessarily, but safer sidewalks would.
That reminds me of an old xmas song;
Safer Sidewalks
Safer Sidewalks
Dressed in Holiday….