Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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.
Perhaps the available space can be used for all the temporary morgues we desperately need! Remember the big Covid hospital at McCormick? They had one patient for GSW.
Despite Boondoggle Booster Blather — Derelict Thompson Center Won’t Fix Vacancy Crater On La Salle Street –
Ha! Central Loop is dead. Ain’t coming back. What industries do urban planners believe are going to pay top dollar to occupy 36,000,000 sq ft of older Class B office buildings on boring LaSalle St? CBOT/MERC/CBOE naively surrendered the hustle and bustle of the floor traders decades ago, the legal industry is moving remote, and some aspects of the federal court system have moved remote permanently; tech pays to be in the west loop; banking no longer needs to be concentrated near the Federal Reserve on LaSalle St…Insurance has moved remote, I know quite a few people in insurance, and… Read more »