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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 certainly for sale. What would Dolton do with it? Something that likely couldn’t happen anywhere else in Dolton except if they put Tiffany Henyard’s wig on display: create a tourist trap. Today, one could visit Saint Pope John Paul II’s home in Wadowice, Poland, for the reasonable price of around $8. There is also a museum dedicated to that pontiff. This historic site and the museum are not municipally owned. I suspect that a slightly higher amount would be charged by Dolton to visit Pope Leo XIV’s onetime home. Not sure what the Dolton Museum of Political corruption would… Read more »
Very interesting, the house is up for auction so all the village needs to do is bid on it. Market value would have been established if they let the auction run and if they didn’t win they could have exercised their right of eminent domain. Instead they threatened the owner with eminent domain thereby discouraging bidders and diminishing the market value. It seems to me that they engaged in a slimy tactic to get the house at less than market value. I hope the owner/buyer gets a good attorney and gets their full value out of this house.
Watch them ask too much for it and the crackerbox sells for about the original asking price after all the maneuvering and hot air. It’s still in Dolton, no matter who lived in it decades ago.