Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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.
Barickman is absolutely correct.
This bill is a total perversion of the original intent of the Section 8 program. The underlying philosophy of this bill is to foist the solution to the housing problem onto the private apartment building owners. Not many people know the history of Section 8, which was designed in the 1980’s to encourage developers to include some low income tenants into their rental pool– not to threaten them with stopping their projects unless they did such and such. Barickman and the owners groups are right to fight this bad bill.