Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Following the “Great Resignation” where people left their jobs for various reasons, Dave Herrell, president and CEO of Visit Quad Citie, said a major obstacle that remains is a shortage of workers.
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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.
I understand that Chicago will issue bulletproof vest to all tourists
Tourism in Illinois? People actually want to visit cornfields?
Tourism is completely dead now due to rampant violent crime. Have these idiots learned nothing from Cleveland and Detroit?
Keep jacking up fuel taxes and neighboring state tourism is what’s going to “rebound”. People will have to make choices about where to spend their “fun” money.
The only “tourists” that will come to Illinois will be people who moved to another state and then remembered that there is something they buried in their old back yard that they need to dig up and take with them
Pritzker COVID Lockdown Lunacy Trashed Illinois Tourism Industry
Couple year process, na maybe a couple decades.