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“Mr. Pritzker doesn’t pay my bills,” restaurant owner Ashley Driemeyer said. “If he would like to come down here and pay them for me and then shut me down, that would be a different story. “I can’t take it anymore,” she said. “I just have too much on the line."
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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.
Unfortunately, the writer of the article can’t seem to understand the obvious mistake even when he puts it into the article. Public health “experts” are idiots. A virus will have an outbreak in a community, it will not care about political boundaries. In general, respiratory viruses hit northern latitudes first and southern latitudes later. This has been known for over 200 years. The obvious mistake is locking down a community where the positivity rate is at 0.7%. The St. Louis area did not start seeing any signs of an outbreak until Mid-August. (Anyone who follows Major League Baseball could tell… Read more »
Every patriotic American, every decent human of every nationality, race, and creed has a duty to oppose this vile Dictator. Keep speaking truth to power!