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“They tear gassed real people,” one protester said. “They threw bricks at real people, and hit batons on real people to protect the statue. So when we say, ‘Who do you protect and who do you serve?’ It’s a statue of Christopher Columbus.”
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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.
Forget the looting, forget, the arsons, forget the murders, forget the shootings, forget the violence, forget the millions of dollars in damage, forget most everything, blame the cops. Brilliant!
Just tell me which laws we are going to enforce on what ethnic/racial/political groups
I am getting confused,
Real people impoverish themselves in this state paying taxes.
I thought the city government was here to help help and protect people.
What a brilliant idea–investigate the police. I woke up yesterday morning and the top four stories I heard were three cars in a shoot out on the Dan Ryan; store looted on Michigan Ave; rioter attempting to tear down the Columbus statue in Grant Park; and three more minors shot. I guess we have so many resources we have time to do plenty of foolish stuff like this.
Lori has to help her constituents win the ghetto lottery with fake trumped up charges against the police. The radical trouble maker who got her tooth knocked out should have gotten a lot worse.