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State Rep. Brandun Schweizer: "Illinois families are suffering from high costs, no jobs, high crime and no hope. Springfield is full of backroom dealers who work for their own benefit while a mechanic I met in Danville is struggling to feed his family. Chicago politicians are calling the shots while a retired teacher from Urbana is contemplating moving due to rising property taxes."
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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.
It’s called Blue Handle Blues, keep voting blue and you eventually swirl down the toilet.
What happened to Illinois is that many years back, a small minority of voters elected politicians who turned Illinois into a forever one-party state. The ruling party then spent all of its political capital over the next 40 years (beginning w/Madigan) rigging Democracy to make sure Republicans could never win again – extreme gerrymandering, redrawing districts, sanctuary status, attracting Democrat voters with policies, lax campaign finance rules for unions, ballot harvesting, failing to prosecute corruption, etc. It mostly worked. Republicans haven’t held the legislature since the 90’s and we’ve only held a handful of statewide offices. Party bosses control the… Read more »
Hard as it likely is for you to comprehend I’m giving you your first up vote. Lots of truth there.
“many years back, a small minority of voters elected politicians who turned Illinois into a forever one-party state” For more than 100 years (1870 to 1980) Illinois had a unique cumulative voting system for electing members of the Illinois House. Every district had 3 House reps and every voter got 3 votes for that office. The voter could cast 1 vote for each of 3 candidates, 1 1/2 votes for each of 2 candidates, or 3 votes for 1 candidate. The effect was to ensure that in most cases, every district had 2 reps from its majority party and 1… Read more »