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"When she first started talking crazy about putting those 'assets' in peril I misheard her. I thought she wanted to put their asses in jail. But I was wrong. Putting them in jail would require her to demand that her fellow Democrats—including her endorsed candidate for Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx–indict repeat violent offenders and have them taken off the streets so they can’t kill other innocents..."
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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 article misses the point. Unlike repeatedly insisting on policy change (which never happens), this oblique tactic will have actual practical impact. Gangs are for-profit organizations which require high cash flow. While low-tier workers may not be highly compensated, they seem to require soft-dollar aspirational inducements (high-lifestyle accouterments of middle- and upper- management , access to pricey legal). Getting civil monetary judgements against criminals or terrorists is not a futile exercise. Professionals in the collection business (bounty hunters, IRS) can be somewhat effective. If upper management seeks to buy cars boats planes guns or real estate, paper trails are created.… Read more »
Today’s ‘gang’s are little more than a few kids or older community members getting together and calling themselves a gang. The large structured gangs of the past were broken up and now it’s a block by block street fight for turf and access to the cartel’s lucrative drug trade. Unless Lori know something we don’t know, the gang bangers I see on CWB look like poor degenerates.
You’re watching too much TV. Local bangers have no money and no assets, this ordinance is pure window dressing. These are low level investigations that target low level dealers, that is all CPD can handle. Most bosses in the organized crime division are there because of a blood relation or they were in the same frat of one of the bigger bosses. Few can string two coherent sentences together let alone conduct a high level narcotics investigation. Only the feds have the knowledge and the resources to put together a RICO investigation which targets high level assets, CPD targets low… Read more »
That’s funny! But Hill Street Blues would’ve been funnier.
Da dada da! What time is it? It’s Lori’s lunchtime little theatre. What tangible benefits has Merrick Garland produced? The water head came to Chicago and departed with a dead Albatross as a hat. What a sap! Arne Duncan……He’s pledged to clean up the steaming pile Lori produced? Edward Clark Haskell!