Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Illinois is losing residents five times faster than any of its neighboring states. Worse, the data disproves a common notion that people are leaving Illinois because of the weather. While Illinoisans left the state, neighboring Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana and Missouri each gained residents from other states – and they don’t get their own, special weather.
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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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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.
We need mine Rosehill for wedding rings and gold dental crowns. Repurpose this unused bling to pay future public employee pensions.
IL democrats don’t see that they are the cause of state’s population collapse
Ken Griffen left and took $$millions of tax dollars with him. He will never look back. Illinois is killing all the golden gooses.
Let’s see, Chicago, High crime, High taxes, poor CHITY services and cold cloudy weather.
Or Sunny safe Punta Gorda Florida, with low taxes and lots of Chicago cops. Illinois is going to lose more and more poor honest hardworking families every year.
Punta Gorda is quite nice. Laishley’s Crab House is highly recommended.
Illinois is lost.