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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.
It’s time for all police to leave the u of Chicago area. It’s alderman Sophia King, head of the progressive caucus is a cop hating, liberal pro criminal democrat ho wants to replace and defund police and replace them with social workers. Let it happen and watch the liberal social workers get murdered by kings darling criminals.
The University of Chicago is in a sketchy area.
Campus police emergency phones are all over the campus.
How many legitimate calls are made from phones each year?
Who is going to answer the phones if the campus police are defunded?
Defund higher education
Defund chump change.
Oh yes. Let’s conduct an experiment on a micro scale. Perfect place. Defund the UChicago police. Also, let’s make sure the Chicago Police divert resources from the campus to other neighborhoods. Instead, spend (not invest) the money allocated for UChicago police to social centers. Now, keep track and good data on crime for entire UChicago student community in Hyde Park.
I am a betting man. I’ll say petty crime increases by high double digit percentages. I’d wager sexual assault and other violent crimes increase in low double digit percentages. Murder will increase. Who wants to take the other side?
Oh c’mon…
Nothing strikes fear in the hearts of criminals like a stern look from a *social worker*…