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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.
Boy, and this is are future omg are we screwed
No work No pay. Let the CTU fail and cue the lawsuits to return CPS taxing district funds to the taxpayers — they need and deserve relief.
Yep, 12 month vacation for the teachers and those “valuable” administrators. Push the actual teaching to the parents. Use automated grading and participation tools…work perhaps 1 hour per day… Once they decide how they are going to do this and if this becomes an on-line world for School Districts, the reduction in staffing is needed, merger of school districts together to get rid of these 2 building 300 student districts with layers of administration.
The only thing Chicago Schools teach is how to become a Whore or drug dealer or Both.
The quality of education is ZERO. The teachers could not pass a GED test.
The most important class is how to do a Drive By Shooting.
Illinois “Land of Slavery”
“The only thing Chicago Schools teach is how to become a Whore or drug dealer”
Yes but they are very good at it!!
Imma whore and drug dealer. Wanna party with me?
It is time to shut this Red propaganda machine down.
Not one more cent for “RED FOR ED”. NO MORE PAYCHECKS AND NO MORE PENSIONS!!!
The CTU and NEA are responsible for everything that is going on, not only in the streets of Chicago but across the nation today.
Red For Ed!?
Let them move to Red China!!!