Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"Since the summer, the city and state have provided shelter and other services to about 3,700 migrants, with the state spending over $120 million. As of Dec. 29, when (Mayor Lori) Lightfoot sent her letter, Chicago was running 11 shelters and still providing care for 1,531 migrants, the rest have traveled elsewhere after getting help here. It should come as no surprise the state’s well is about to run dry."
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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.
The city wants more money from the state, the state wants more money from the feds, and the feds use more money from the taxpayer. For a minute there, I thought we were off the hook.
Why don’t the migrants pay for themselves? They paid money to the cartels to get here. They can pay the State of IL for their care too.
I say that they get put up by their relatives that are already here like my grandparents did 100 years ago.
I’d be willing to pitch in for bus tickets back to Mexico – other than that, nada.