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"No one can argue that Maine’s statehood, or even the Missouri Compromise itself, was the singular or direct cause of the Civil War. It nonetheless hardened deepening partisan and geographic divisions in the U.S. The absorption of some of Illinois’ most strongly Republican counties into already solidly Republican Indiana, strengthening Democratic control of Illinois in the process, would similarly risk writing partisan and ideological divisions into state borders."
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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.
Interesting history but weak tea. I see the issue as freedom vs. coercion. Why should “authorities” hinder people’s desires to join Indiana?
Also, author wrote “Redrawing the borders of Illinois … might create fault lines that could one day prove rapturous.” Definition of “rapturous”: “Filled with or characterized by great joy or rapture; ecstatic.” I give his article a “D.”
90% of Illinois is rural for the most part with people living in those rural parts that have zero in common with those in Cook County and several of the collar counties yet Cook and those few others rule the state and make laws and regulations that simply rub the wrong way those rural, small town folks to the core. The “elite” from those ultra liberal counties could care less about the rubes and hicks from the small towns and farm lands in Illinois and therefore a major problem exists. The rubes and hicks have no voice in state government… Read more »
As opposed to writing partisan and ideological Gerrymandering within state borders, rendering voices and votes irrelevant.
Like we have now 😉