Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
26 Illinois deaths from covid, 739 Chicago deaths from the 1995 heatwave
Ironically, everyone stayed at home during that heat wave too, that’s why they all died, sitting alone in their apartments, succumbing to the heat.
The McCormick Place plans are “part of our pandemic planning, but it is not something I have ever wanted to consider seriously in Chicago,” Arwady said. “But we’re talking about it not in theoretical ways. We’re working right now to do everything we can to protect our health care system.”
The city is also talking about how it could set up morgues in parking lots if necessary, Arwady said.
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Talk about fear-mongering! We have a public official talking about setting up morgues in parking lots? Totally inappropriate.