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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.
Have no clue why Republicans/conservatives aren’t pursing this argument. If your a low income black student in cps, for example, being stuck with a crappy ctu teacher who cant be fired is ok for the socailly woke blm because the teachers arent shooting anybody on cell-phone video for the instant social media shock value?. Will recall my mom back in the 60s and my wife in the 90s fighting to get rid of absolute incompetent cps/ctu teachers–nobody was fired. And as we all know, nobodys ever fired or even disaplined in any illinois public sec unions. But cops collective bagining… Read more »
Doesn’t seem to me that IL GOP is pushing any argument, on that or anything else. Some individual legislators are, but not many.
CPS Student Population: African American: 35.9%, Hispanic: 46.6%, White: 10.8%
CPS Racial Breakdowns (All Staff): African-American: 32.8%, Hispanic: 25.6%, White: 34.8%
CPS Teacher Racial Breakdowns: African-American: 20.7%, Hispanic: 21.3%, White: 50.3%
CTU membership is majority white. Would wager IFT membership is super-majority white. Yet where is their accountability in all this?
Steve Boulton replaced Chris Cleveland as Chicago GOP Chair, as shown on the Chicago GOP Website. ?
Check out if you are not familiar with John Stossel Stupid in America 5-6-12 (that’s the air date) on youtube. Find the 39 minute version. Also “The education blob strikes back, unions,pta,
“aired 4-18-2013 with John Stossel about 41 minutes long. Caution! your BP will go up as will your property tax’s.