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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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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
It’s time we take our voices to their front doors! These elected criminals have failed us all year! Now is the time we take back our state. Either they do their jobs or remove them from offices by any means necessary! Protest in their front yards scream all night anger their neighbors everything that blm did to police we do to government and get them off their fat asses!
Yes, most definitely protest in their front yards! ??
That’s a fantastic idea I’m all in I’m tired of sending emails to my local representative and state senator(s) and never receive a response. The only problem is how to convince people to get off there fat asses and do something about it. It seems there is only a select few who care about the situation in Illinois the state of bankruptcy and insolvency, until the free stuff ends in this state and checks stop coming will people wake up and be heard until then doa.
That’s what elections are supposed to accomplish, isn’t it? Either you and like-minded people are out of synch politically with the larger number of people who were able to vote for the candidates who won or you are unwilling to accept the democratic process in action in a more general sense. Either way you are going to have to “get over it” or risk the consequences of actions you take personally or for those you influence to do so. Every election has winners snd losers. Be gracious instead of vengeful. You’ll be be off doing so.