Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Draft Law in Springfield Would Make Homeless Encampments Impossible to Eliminate in Chicago Parks – Chicago Contrarian
"A bombastic socialist, (Chicago Park District General Superintendent and CEO Carlos) Ramirez-Rosa assumed office last April, and almost immediately emphasized the need to address homelessness. An odd issue to mention upon becoming CEO of the city's Park District, Ramirez-Rosa's silence on HB 1492 is telling. ... Although there are few known changes, a playground has been named after an armed man shot dead in 2014."
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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.
They had better install shoe scrapers on
every block so that tax paying citizens can
clean the crap off of those expensive
florshiems.
So the park superintendent wants to allow the homeless to claim the city parks as their own. What’s next? Like in Spain, to allow the homeless who occupy a temporarily empty house to permanently occupy this as well. Socialism gone amok!
Wait till some enterprising bozo decides that he can scrape together some lumber from an idiot liberal and build a cabin in Lincoln Park or a shack on the Oak Street beach. That will be a great litmus test for Mayor Moron and his merry band of losers and miscreants.
This has all happened before and will happen again. Look up the history of Streeterville, in the 1880’s, a guy named George Streeter hit a sandbar with his boat and declared it his sovereign land and it took decades to evict him and his merry band of criminals and miscreants.Ironically, it was the last Republican mayor, William Hale Thompson, who finally removed George Streeter from Streeterville. But your idea of building a cabin with lumber is very close to the truth. The ‘cabin’ would likely be built with wood from the surrounding trees, cinder block and pink board insulation with… Read more »
I live in Streeterville. I say Viva Streeter. Independence now 😉
I wonder why lawmakers would want these as it shows they have failed the constituents they represent. Here sleep in a park, then they go home to their warm beds .
Title of linked article should be Daft Law, not Draft Law