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“They’re not even remotely doing their due diligence on this,” one victim of fraud said. "The state is just sending our money in the easiest of fashion without even picking up the phone call and calling to see if anyone was terminated...To me, they are not honoring their obligations to watch over our money."
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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.
IDES isn’t an outlier among Illinois agencies insofar as an inability to exercise responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars is concerned.
Unemployment insurance mismanagement is just the headline of the moment. IDES has lots of company.
The Illinois Department of Human Services & Medicaid (PC camouflaged by calling it “insurance”), Department of Revenue, Department of Transportation, Department of Natural Resources – all “managed” by political appointees who take their orders from an administration beholden to government employee union’s political contributions, and tax-dollar-dependent cabals like Big Doc, Big Hospital, Big Pharm, Day-Care disguised as Education, and Big Lawyer.