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Troy Paraday, who made more than $430,000 this past year as Calumet City District 155 superintendent, was fired following a school board investigation into alleged misconduct, according to a board resolution authorizing his discharge.
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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.
This is comical…532 unused sick days, 310 accrued comp days, and 3 DUI’s!
https://abc7chicago.com/archive/6425989/
This is going on all over the state. Here in Rockford school dist 205 test scores came in and 16 schools are at the bottom of the barrel in Illinois -reading down-math down and so on while earlier in the year the teachers voted themselves a $20.6 3/yr contract then the super and no union received raises. Our taxes are sky high here at 14.83% on 1/3rd value. Maybe they need more money? after all taxpayers have bottomless pockets!!
The school board should be held accountable for the outrageous contract this man got for overseeing 1,200 students?
Inept, nontransparent school boards are among Illinois’ central problems.