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Speaking one day after the Illinois Department of Public Health issued new guidance urging residents to stay home and leave only for essential activities, Pritzker said "we are running out of time, and we are running out of options."
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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.
2022 – can Illinois wait that long?
Metrics ? seriously?
How many of these “cases” are people that are having the test because they have procedures coming up? A case is anytime someone takes a test–NOT JUST A POSTIVE result.
The jacka** stated the other day that though the hospitals are not going up in patients he just wants to make sure that they don’t.
But his privileged self and family and Lighthead feel they are above the people who are paying their salaries. OH that is right JABBA has his money other places and not in Illinois so he doesn’t have to pay taxes on toilets.