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The project would add to Chicago’s pipeline of struggling office buildings turning residential, making way for more residents in the city’s core. The developer would make 20 percent of the units available under the city’s Affordable Requirements Ordinance.
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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.
Ironically, this area (and slightly to the west) was called Little Hell during the 1870 to the early 1900’s as it was a slum, full of poorly built tenement buildings and shoddily built workers housing full of poverty stricken immigrants who spent much of their time stabbing each other outside of saloons. This is what our urban planners want again, to turn the Mag Mile into Section 8 housing for immigrant, to once again, engage in petty and felonious crimes at wholesale levels. And they say history repeats itself…
They should’ve stopped calling it The Magnificent Mile some time ago.
It’s now called The Mug Mile by many.
I guess they are expecting big things from Google.
One fifth of the Mag Mile affordable ( Section 8 ) housing. Nice.
But theres no stores to rob, Gangs will just need to steal more cars to go to the Candy Land (burbs).