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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.
Tik tok, it’s only a matter of time…
Illinois State employment percentages…African Americans apparently hold government jobs in a statistically anomalous higher ratio than that ethic group’s percentage of both total population and workforce population.
See page 9 tables of statistical reports from IDES, citing US Census source data:
“The chart below contains Illinois State employee, general population, and available labor market
data during FY 2019. As reflected, African-Americans represented 14.6 percent of the general
population, 12.5 percent of the available labor market, and 21.5 percent of the State’s workforce.”
To source see link near bottom of page
“2020 African American Employment Plan”
https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/personnel/DEP/Pages/AAEP.aspx
Maybe LL and “big guy” gov will finally admit there’s a major problem. Instead of blaming it all on Bruce Rauner, some real decisions will need to be made. Hey, has anyone seen our comptroller SM???!
Spend money like Illinois and going bankrupt is easy.
Promise Huge Pensions only God can afford to pay.
Tax people some much that they hate the state and leave in huge numbers.