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Signed into law Friday, HB 2531 requires the Illinois Department of Transportation to start the prequalification process for entering public-private agreements established in the South Suburban Airport Act. If private sector proposals come through and the project moves forward, the cargo airport will be built at Bult Field between Monee and Beecher.
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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
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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
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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.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The Illinois Combine and their pals and family want to cash out of their land trusts and other “investments” all for an airport that no one is asking for and Illinois cannot afford to build and operate. See ‘Gary/Chicago International Airport’ for guidance on how this will play out. An airport with zero customers, but lotsa money for the “Haya doin?” contingent.
The pols bought lots of land around Peotone when this while airport idea was floated years back. The land is still there waiting, waiting, waiting for the descendants to cash in big time. I wouldn’t trust a politician as far as I could throw them. Think JB, not very far at all.
This airport will be the gift that keeps giving for democrat corruption