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"As we promised last week when we announced in partnership with the Illinois Federation of Teachers, no avenue or action is off the table -- the courts, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board -- nothing, including health and safety strikes," IEA President Kathi Griffin said.
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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.
Everyone already knows what the result will be. More, more, and MORE!
According to the Wirepoints update on this site today, a total of six Illinoisans under age 20 have died from Covid so far this year. So it appears that more CPS students have died of gunfire this year than from Covid. Doesn’t seem like the CTU members are in much danger from their students insofar as catching Covid 19 is concerned. When their students are packing, stacking, or car jacking, then that would be another matter. Maybe the physical danger to the teachers in the city and social decay in the schools is the real reason the CTU members want… Read more »
Frontline healthcare workers & first responders still go to work everyday…
I don’t hear about massive death tolls from cv19 among them…
And they are at way more risk then teachers ever will be…