Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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A large empty lot that was once Jewel-Osco will house up to 1,400 migrants, sources say. Neighbors said the community is already in a crisis and adding migrants into their neighborhood would make things worse. "I'm one who loves to help people, but you're going to impact on something that already needs help," said resident Lisa Cordova. "It doesn't make sense."
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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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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.
Roseland, according to Wikipedia, was settled in the 1840’s by Dutch immigrants, and expanded greatly by Italians during the late 19th and early 20th century. These residents moved on and were eventually replaced by African-Americans. They’ve been quite frankly terrible stewards of the community, killing each other with reckless abandon, with 22 murders in 2020, 28 murders in 2021, 27 murders last year and 16 murders so far this year. Things have gotten so bad in Roseland that fewer people live here today (38,816) than in 1930 (43,206), down from a peak of (64,372) people in 1980. It’s obvious the… Read more »
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