Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is claiming $6.4 million in savings from terminating leases on Chicago-area property. The DOGE website does not list addresses or tenants for most of the lease terminations it counts as savings. It includes leased space in Chicago, Joliet, Naperville, Tinley Park and Hoffman Estates.
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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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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.
Unsurprisingly, WGN makes Trump the boogie man and ignores the blatant wasteful spending that has become our federal government. As taxpayers finally correlate the frustration of dealing with almost any government and state agency with wasteful spending of their money, the attitudes start to pivot to a reevaluation of how our money is spent. Taxpayers are allowed to expect more for their money than the politicians have permitted. Paying rent for half-full or multiple offices of the government that can be consolidated into a smaller footprint is just one more way the grifters in Illinois spend other peoples money. So… Read more »