Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Saying the city needs to “operationalize” its welcoming city promise, Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas laid out a long term plan, indicating officials expect the influx of migrants to continue for some time. That strategy includes maintaining “supply space,” buying shelter sites to use when needed that can serve as community hubs when not, as well as advocating for immigration reform at the federal level “in a way that I don’t know if we’ve seen that before.” SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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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
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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.
Plan: “we will somehow spend $10,000/migrant/month, until money-sources run out”.
CTU: super-duper pleased by Mayor’s Office successful recruitment of hundreds of new CPS students.
NONE of these people are Asylum seekers, the laws of asylum are clear “neighboring country”, these people are fleeing their countries for “hand-outs” in America, local cities like them because they get to TAX their citizens more all of which is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
This is going to back-fire, teaching these people to BREAK the law will not make the “Good” citizens, it will only encourage BAD ones.
Why isn’t CTU/Brandon shipping the migrants all over the state like Adams is doing in NYC? The entire state of Illinois is a sanctuary state after all. And I’m sure JB would be happy to assist because it would be so politically popular (NOT!!)
I would LOVE a few bus loads shipped up here to The People’s Republik of Evanston, lol…
I think Evanston already has a program
Yup, that “program” is the greedy and grifting homeless “services” outfit called “Connections for the Homeless” – I’m part of a neighborhood group that is fighting their Margarita Inn homeless shelter. They have imported vagrants and crimininals into Evanston in order to provide them “services” – and you can guess “the rest of the story”. However, two lawsuits have been filed against them (one of them a class – action suit which I am part of), so hopefully we’ll get them shut down, Here is one suit: Landlord next door sues Margarita Inn owner to stop shelter operations https://evanstonroundtable.com/2023/05/03/neighboring-landlord-sues-margarita-inn-owner-to-stop-shelter-operations/ “The… Read more »
GM, keep us posted on the status of these lawsuits. That an existing landlord whose probably been paying property taxes and fees for years has any standing in the Peoples Republic of Evanston would be a surprise
Send them to Springfield, JB and his fellow Dems will welcome them with open arms.
Belleville, O’Fallon and Edwardsville could sure use some.
So, CTU/Brandon still has no idea how much taxpayers will be on the hook for the migrants? Also, where’s SEIU, AFSCME, CTU, etc demanding all the migrant staffing job are union?
They don’t need to make any demands, Brandon will quietly take care of them.