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The agency recommended Friday that schools fully reopen in the fall. It also recommended masks be worn by students who are not vaccinated. The CDC also recommended that schools maintain at least 3 feet of physical distance between students within classrooms to reduce transmission risk.
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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.
Always remember their goal is to keep citizens turned on one another through opaque “policies” and “guidance” to distract from their insatiable appetite for power and control.
The fact their lives are worse and their worlds grow smaller goes unnoticed by the indoctrinated.
The Illinois state school mask mandate is abhorrent. It’s wrong to make kids, or anyone else for that matter, wear masks. It’s ridiculous, onerous, and pointless to require masks and social distancing in schools and daycares especially since children are at low risk to covid-19 and are at low risk of transmitting it to adults. Any adult school or daycare worker who is concerned about catching covid-19 has had ample opportunity to get vaccinated and should have nothing to fear from unmasked children. Make your local school board clearly aware that you oppose these mandates and expect the school board… Read more »
Public health officials don’t seem to have even a remnant of humanity left in them. How can a person call himself rational and moral, then force all children under 12 to wear a mask, when their risk from the virus is almost zero? Power-hungry bullies abusing children.