Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Right now, Chicago has a record amount of vacant office space. CBRE, a global commercial real estate firm, reports 15.5% of the office space downtown is vacant. By the end of 2022, the company forecasts vacancies can range from 18%, which is the best-case scenario, up to 20%, meaning one-fifth of the city's office space could be empty.
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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.
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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.
It us one thing for Zoom to dramatically reduce office space usage. It’s another to ask employees and customers and partners to risk their lives and property to go downtown with it’s rampant crime with no bail for repeat violent criminals.
Don’t tell the truth like you did, it’s not politically correct in this world. It’s racism. We are all supposed to sit back and take it from the feral predators and politicians who have destroyed Chicago. And God forbid if we say the truth about the minorities and gays. So just be quiet and obey. My final post.
And the sheep go , “Baaaaah”!
Downtown Chicago is nowhere near as desirable as it was 14 months ago, because quite simply, few want to get back on trains and buses, even post-covid, to re-enter that rat race.