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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.
VOTE YES, pensions need to be funded.
Taxpayers always pay the bills, let the rich pay more.
If they do not like they can move.
This is so obviously written as ridicule since its clearly not “you” if one has seen all your prior postings. Still, for those who take its as your real position I think something that’s been said numerous times needs to be said again; the “rich” pay a disproportately larger amount of state income taxes already with the flat tax system. To expect them to pay even more by enabling the progressive state income system is sheer madness as they will see it since they would presumably pay even larger amounts. That is a disincentive to keep many of them to… Read more »
James it really is me. The taxpayers can stay and pay for a pension luxury home in Florida or Move and pay for their own luxury home in Florida.
Illinois has killed the golden goose long ago, it is dead as it can get.
No hope, so the best thing for many people is much higher taxes and then maybe they will get out of Illinois and start a new much better life some where else.
It is a shame, but the Pension Greed has DESTROYED Illinois for generations to come.