Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
"This administration is completely out of ideas," Ald. Brian Hopkins said on television, while Paul Vallas posted to social media, "What we are witnessing is the systematic destruction of Chicago's economic heart as the mayor and her CPD leadership team have no strategy for addressing escalating crime and lawlessness."
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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
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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.
At the designated time blow the tornado sirens to clear the streets.
Try shutting down the Red line trains going northbound between 95th Street and the Loop, from Noon on Friday to 5 AM Monday. Problem Solved.
Brown will just get on an airplane and leave. No phone call, nothing! He’s got to be totally frustrated with Lori and fed up. Like the teens and young adults care what Lori says! She’s never enforced any laws before!
Talk about confusion! Brown says it’s ok for teens and young adults to gather within the curfew restrictions as long as they obey the law! Huh?