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We saw the highest number of suicides last fiscal year than we've seen in at least a decade: 8. The average was two to four in the years before this.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Hmmm….is being connected to DCFS listed as cause of death? I’d believe it!
That’s a terrible comment, these are children here..,
I had a renter that was into heavy alcohol use and other substances. I called DFCS and they told me they didn’t have the resources to investigate. I gather from that funding is provided to the bureaucracy that it is for salaries and pensions but nothing left over to do the job they are supposed to do.
Once again, only in Illinois
At least 40,000 in Illinois die every year who will never know what it is to be a kid let alone a teenager then an adult,to get married to have children and hopefully grandchildren and have a full life. Every year!