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State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, chairs the House State Government Administration Committee. “At this time, out of caution for individuals' health [because of COVID-19,] I won't call an in-person meeting. We have been having many meetings with IDES … I think the volume is so great, it has overloaded the system similar to the issues in many other states.”
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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.
Don’t forget, on top of Illinois CARES ACT fed funding and only state to borrow under fed MLF program, back in may Illinois was approved for highest in nation–$11 billion fed line of credit for unemployment claims because its unemployment fund was woefully underfunded (which will all have to be paid back). Illinois just got thru paying back fed loans for unemployment from 2009…does anybody in state gov care? https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/05/05/9-states-seek-36b-in-federal-advances-for-unemployment-claims-1282530
The volume is so great and the employees are so lazy that Big Government can’t function, as usual