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But there were over 11,200 fewer Illinoisans running retail stores on Nov. 28, thanks to COVID-19 and state-mandated lockdowns. And when it was time to take a shopping break to eat and drink, there were nearly 17,600 fewer Illinois bar and restaurant owners to serve you.
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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.
All part of the Governor’s plan. Destroy private sector businesses and its people to strengthen the socialist hold on Illinois and its people.
While public sector workers get pay rises and no lay-offs – not one since March 2020 that I know off.
More takers than makers is where this is heading.
You seem to have pretty much summed things up here but why would a billionaire be a Communist?
Answer to be found in Rose L. Martins “Fabian Freeway”
Full pdf download (no charge):
Fabian Freeway – High Road to Socialism in the USA (mises.org)
Under Communism, or Russian if I may, some animals are more equal than others…seems to me I read that somewhere.
Okay. Thanks for the treatise. Could you do all of us a favor and summarize what it concludes please?
Totalitarians will typically take any disordered path — anarchy, socialism/communism, cronyism/fascism, etc. — to meet their goal. They’ll happily employ useful idiots to help. Reducing the number of small/medium businesses not only makes citizens more dependent, it increases the pool of useful idiots, who will be even more loyal to the totalitarian since they know they have little chance of attaining money and status through normal, fruitful means.
More takers than makers – we are nearly there already. The working man is screwed.
BLAME it ALL on LARD A**