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The governor is expected to extend his order again this week, but this time statehouse Republicans want changes, calling for state parks to reopen, hospitals to start performing elective procedures and some businesses to reopen.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Pritzker is more than just a partisan buffoon now – His stupidity is now doing DEEP damage to the state. Get Pritzker the heck out of the way.
Who cares what Illinois Republicans think?
They have no elected state wide executive.
The press ignores them.
They have no recognized leader or spokesperson.
They have no state wide message.
They did not rally around the Republican governor and a Republican presidents agenda.
How about a coherent 10 point Contract with the voters.
That they can explain the future of not changing and compare it to a future they envision.
Educate the voters on the consequences of past choices and propose hard choices to be made and implemented.
Illinois is a “Vote Blue No Matter Who” state. And we have witnessed the results. There is a small Republican resistance that was gerrymandered into irrelevancy. Most Democrats I know (and I know a lot, living in NE Illinois) would never, ever, under any circumstance whatsoever, vote for an IL Republican. Never gonna happen, no way. Doesn’t matter if he or she took the most progressive positions, even further to the left than the loonbags, but called him or herself a Republican, it would go against their vote core identity to check that R box on the ballot.
I think that the more appropriate question is: Who cares what Illinois Democrats think?
Certainly not anybody outside of Illinois. Just look at the response that they got to their pathetic bailout demand. The rest of the country is just laughing at them.