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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.
Seems Chicago Democrats and public employee union bosses are like “We got ours. To bad for you if you’re not in on this scam.”
Give Governor Tax-Cheat credit for his relentless consistency on behalf of Illinois’ Democrat’s political strategy – Tax-n-fee as much as is required to keep public employee union votes and endorsements rolling in, while also insuring that the Medicaid-Industrial-Complex and Nanny-State-Daycare-Camoflauged-as-Education stakeholders are happy campers. Meanwhile, thousands of state employees who want to do a good job struggle to keep up at home without state computers on which to do their work, without state telephones to speak to taxpayers calling about services, “managed” by political appointees who’d struggle to organize a pissing contest in a brewery, who go from one “Ooops,… Read more »
Cannot add anything better than the five Comments already ! I escaped Chicago (actually Park Forest when it was a wonderful place to grow up) after High School in 1973, for college at Occidental, near Pasadena CA. Now live in the Peoples’ Republic of Maryland.
Jaba will have to give Lightfoot a Bonus for her standing by and letting Downtown be destroyed and to Fox for turning her head to crime!
On top of the rediculous afscme pay raises, jb still hasn’t ordered our afscme essential worker heros back from work at home status?…how many more unemplyment claims could have been processed at ides? How many more lives of seniors in nursing homes could have been saved at idph?? Nobody in Springfield cares, nobody in press cares to ask?…must be nice to be classified as an “essential worker” and work at home, especially when $HEROS ACT$ goes thru for even bigger bailout / payday!!!
Too bad these greed-crazed union bums have no shame nor morals. If only their parents had raised them right
If this headline doesnt make you never vote for an IL Democrat again then you are either stupid or are a Madigoon Criminal. Or both.
Thanks to JB.
WOW he really cares about the everyday Illinois citizen.
What a guy.
(pure sarcasm)