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“President Trump’s program will likely cut off the most vulnerable workers, create needless competition among states for these limited FEMA dollars, and sow more confusion among the unemployed,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said. “I want to caution that those eligible for these dollars will likely encounter frustration and unfairness brought on by the president’s short-sighted and short-lived program.”
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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.
So Pritzker, on what basis are you blaming the federal government for not having enough money in a State funded and administered program? Before the Wuhan virus the US had three years of economic boom and a prior three years of an OK economy. So, during the nine years since the Great Recession why wasnt the State of Illinois replenishing the IDES unemployment funding?
And you turn around and blame the federal government for Illinois financial idiocy? Disgusting.
Illinois needs more financial aid? Why who would have thought?
Yet again adding to the list as long as Godzilla’s arm of Prigster LIES that the destruction he has wrought to the IL economy and people’s livelihoods is SOMEONE ELSE’S fault.
Do we have Idiocy beyond compare or Projection beyond the pale – ?
Uh and for sure the internal IDES spiraling failures this year belong to a perpetrator outside the state as well…
It is interesting how it is the Germans who take the first stand against the COVID scam with their 20,000+ march in Berlin on Saturday. Labelled “Covid-deniers” by the media, I have several German friends who participated in the rally. They are not deniers at all, just ordinary folk protesting the restrictions when the data says otherwise. How telling that the fuse is being lit on push back in the very country that had to deal with Hitler. Speaking with my friends they know what keeping ones freedoms really mean, and why they are taking a stand now after what… Read more »
“…due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.”
As declared by J. Beluga Pritzker
What a croc of sh**!!!