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Juvenal Coronel was arrested five times within the first month of cashless bail’s debut on September 18. He kept getting out. In the end, prosecutors dropped all of the cases except for the battery charges he received for slapping a women’s buttocks. After getting credit for good behavior, Coronel was released earlier this month. He already has three cases pending.
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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.
It’s all going as planned.
This “program” puts law abiding citizens and their families at risk every day. Officials do not seem to care at all about the actual people living their lives, raising their families and paying their taxes. Doesn’t seem to matter to them that this continued behavior degrades our quality of life in order to somehow protect this numbskulls right to break the law and injure people. Just a matter of time before this jack ass does something really bad…then who they gunna blame? It is against all common sense, which frightens me, there is so many decisions and direction in play… Read more »
Hmm, this even beats those 2 for the price of 1 deals….
This dude has a certain Charlie Manson look about him, and not in a good way. Significant mental health issues and no hope for getting better. Hopefully he doesn’t hurt any innocent people as he meanders around a city that has no solutions for this type of problem. This story isn’t going to have a happy ending.