Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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From the outset, the endeavor touted DEI as a key part of enshrining Obama's legacy at the 19.3-acre site, where costs have ballooned from an initial $350 million to $830 million in 2021 based on its previous annual reports, with no publicly available figures available for updated projected costs.
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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.
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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.
You just have to wonder how much of the money dedicated to this project is actually going into the pockets of people who are doing nothing that contributes toward the construction of this building. I bet “administrative” and “consulting fees” are enormous!
Looks like some abandoned missile silo in Russia. Chicago gets uglier by the day, both literally and figuratively.
People why are you so surprised this is the Illinois way.
Looks like a Chinese food takeout box
Prediction:
President Trump’s library will be finished before Obama’s.
It’s a good idea to read the specs before you bid.
Never should have been build in a park to start with and of course everyone will be displaced.
There’s a reason that don’t sell spray paint in Chicago and your looking at it. It will be a billion dollar eyesore painted like a rail car.
they built this abomination on the site of the magnificent 1893 Columbian Exposition too.
what a metaphor for Chicago’s decline