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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.
I like dancing in my speedos at Montrose Beach.
I’m not a contractor but I think it would be real easy to build tunnels under those fences.
There are better uses for money that the city does not have.
Better uses for the money that put up the fence–haircuts.
Lori shows again her hate for white people. She is totally silent on weekly wildings, rots, arson, looting street and ghetto memorial parties for bangers, birthday parties, the pride blm demonstrations until 4am on pride weekend, the 4th of July party for 1000 at millennium park, the 1000 dancing and chanting F*** CPD after she removed the statues, traffic blocked for a dance and pizza party by Ja’mal green with traffic closed for 4 hours with no arrests at Roosevelt and Columbus, and countless other incidents of insane blatant lawlessness by her people. She has made it totally clear that… Read more »
Here’s hoping a few prominent people/top dog families who actually care about Chi’s survival have realized her utter ruination of the city and are working to get her out. I can think of a few names, and they ain’t P***kster.
Imagine having the kind of hubris where you tell yourself that you have the good authority to restrict the people of Chicago from their lakefront. In summertime no less.
Just imagine the type of person you’d have to be to think it’s ok for you to do that. A city of 2+ million people that existed long before you but will never quite be the same after you.
Just carry BLM signs, that makes people immune to COVID