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Asked what happened to the metrics CPS cited over the summer as thresholds for keeping schools closed, Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said since then, there has been a lot of new information about COVID-19 and schools.“What we have seen broadly is that around the country, even around the world... school transmission has not been the major source of spread that we honestly expected that it would be."
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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.
Schools will probably reopen when:
#1 There is a cure for the common cold.
#2 There is a cure for cancer.
#3 There is a cure for death.
#4 There are no more murders or crime in Chicago.
#5 When Illinois becomes a Red state.
#6 When the pension crisis is solved without any more taxpayer money or bailout.
#7 Basically when Hell freezes over.
Thank God!
Just keep them closed!!!
Only work in progress is you lighthead.
The unions are a bigger threat to children than COVID
Exactly and also a threat to all taxpayers in Illinois