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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.
For such a big guy JB is incredibly thin skinned. He can’t accept anyone not agreeing with him, and it’s a real character flaw. So he lashes out because the voters told him to go back to the drawing board. He better get used to it.
Has he cut his dietary needs out of the Illinois budget?
Why blame the voters? Because Pritzker is a globalist technocratic pig & relentless gaslighting is their managerial credo to maintain power, regardless of whatever organization they sit aperch of. Plus, he has a point, he either won enough votes last election and/or wasn’t caught cheating, so whatever he does, he hides behind his “mandate” and blames you for voting for him, even if you tried not to, but ultimately failed, which is possible in a Dominion/Smartmatic jurisdiction.
No, the Dictator did not make needed budget cuts. He made a tiny fraction of needed budget cuts