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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.
It’s the taxes that devalue your purchasing ability…
The whole thing is really rather simple. You take a $100 dollar bill and go shopping at a Costco in Chicago and I will go to a Costco in Indiana with a $100 dollar bill. We will both buy the same items and let’s see whose $100 dollars buys more.
Does this give you an idea of how the taxation thing works?
Can someone explain to me how $100 can purchase over $100 in goods?
Cultural experience in downtown Chicago? I think that has changed. Unless you like the experience of your car being destroyed, being carjacked or your cell phone being stolen at gun point. Plus seeing the perp in the street again the next day.
Why do you think that people are leaving Illinois?
So many reasons!!! the fact that taxes are outrageous and the politicians are only out for themselves and that there is no law and order.
Cultural experience in downtown Chicago? I think that has changed, unless you like to experience major delays from mostly peaceful protesters, or being carjacked.