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"People are still very concerned and very fearful. And unfortunately, a lot of the gains that we had made are starting to disappear over the course of time. I think fundamentally, we still have to focus on a couple of things. You’ve got to deal with the immediate problem of, in my view, still too many violent, dangerous habitual offenders walking the street," the former mayor said when asked about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s initiatives to open more mental health facilities and work programs in a bid to combat crime. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
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.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Lightfoot had golden opportunity to become a national political rock-star, had she been a prudent pro-active law-and-order mayor, instead of yet another lame progressive mouth-piece. It’s sad. And Chicago suffers for her poor performance.
Her entire time in office, she didn’t say that once. What a fraud the woman is.
Hit the road Beetlejuice
She should go back to her academic job. She and her administration would be great case studies regarding the damage progressive and combative policies have on an urban area. There might be some- but there are not many- mayors who did more disastrous things to the city they ran.
Coleman Young but it took him 20 years to kill Detroit.
THe story of Young is one I often recite.
Does anyone really care where she stays?
She needs to pack up and go back to Buckeye land.
Let them have to deal with Beetlejuice!!