Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Recent U.S. Census data underscore a grim reality for the biggest blue states: More people are leaving states such as California, New York and Illinois than moving to them. These migration patterns have huge consequences for state budgets: New York’s tax base, for example, decreased by $19.5 billion in 2020, while California saw $17.8 billion leave that year and lllinois lost $8.5 billion.
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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
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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.
America’s Priciest Neighborhoods Are Changing as pension money moves to Florida.Ex Illinois residents are creating a real estate boom in Florida. Lots of cops, teachers, and firemen on huge pensions driving up the market prices. All Thanks to Illinois taxpayers.
The good news for you will only have to pay them for another 40 or 50 years.
Count us in (out) when obligations here are completed.
Last one to leave Illinois, turn out the lights.
Low property taxes, 7% sales tax, no surcharge taxes on meals, no state income tax, gas at 3.16 a gallon in Florida. What’s not to love? It’s no wonder all the rstate etirees move here after 40 years of doing no work.
All of this while the Pension Time Bomb is going off. This is not going to end well for the people who stay in Illinois. Overly generous pensions and lower tax revenue. PPF and the likes of him have destroyed Illinois.