Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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During Mayor Brandon Johnson’s closed-door meetings, the Illinois Senate Executive Committee quietly cleared an education measure that Johnson and the Chicago Teachers Union had opposed. It included a moratorium on all Chicago school closings until 2027 — and it would also stop the Chicago Board of Education from changing standards of admission for selective enrollment schools.
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The government in IL “ quietly clears “ a lot of things that don’t see the light of day until they are enacted. Locally, the housing of more child molesters in a kid laden neighborhood with a nearby school and park and the underhanded attempt to purchase a community property to house illegal immigrants without consulting those that would be most affected by it are but two examples.
So Johnson went to Springfield. Which one? The one in Illinois or Missouri or the one The Simpson’s live in.
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