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"In Chicago, it is reported that 64% of respondents to a recent poll said they felt unsafe. The only state reporting a higher rate of perception of worsening crime was New York at 70%. While crime, whether through direct or indirect experience, impacts everyone differently, the perception of growing corruption and criminal activity plays a critical role in individual decisions made every day."
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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.
Let’s ask that woman who was robbed at rifle-point in Wicker Park. Or the other people robbed by same gang, same morning, with same rifle. CPD police spotted gang’s vehicle, were ordered to not pursue. Open season on pedestrians here in Chicago.
Seems like a rhetorical question already answered by countless examples, by countless mugging victims here in Chicago, here in 2023, here experiencing the Reign of Terror known as the Mayor BJ year.
The 64% of Chicagoans who feel unsafe will still vote for clowns like states attorney Foxx, Raoul, Pritzger, Durbin, Duckworth, biden and any other candidate with a “D” after their name. When those unsafe city voters become crime victims the usual response will be, “It’s Trump’s fault”.
The main problem is Foxx, Preckwinkle and Evans. None of the voters realize it, they always blame the Mayor and the Police Superintendent. The current Mayor is not going to make it any better but you need to start by replacing Foxx, Preckwinkle and Evans.
And half of those voters still blame ‘systemic racism’ and ‘poverty’ for crime instead of the police. Some of these idiots blame the police for crime too – AOC once said when arguing in favor of defunding the police that a world without cops was like the suburbs. The unfortunate reality is that many voters want to live in a world of crime. They believe it is more important to fight ‘mass incarceration’ of ‘black and brown folks’ than it is to stop crime. And this is not hyperbole, a lot of the world voluntarily lives in high crime areas… Read more »