The owner of an East Loop office building where DePaul University left behind a big office during the COVID-19 pandemic is facing a nearly $62 million foreclosure lawsuit, adding to the deep pool of distress ailing the downtown office market. Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
Mayor Brandon Johnson, leading the Loop down the drain!
Like LaSalle St, it’s time to re-imagine affordable housing in the Loop again.
All of downtown will be in foreclosure soon enough. There’s such little interest in businesses returning downtown again. Especially that area of the loop, near that grimey gross McDonalds, with constant bum and homeless activity, little light, it’s very dirty and loud from the El.