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Nearly $50 million of that projected financial impact comes from adjustments to student fees for housing, dining and other activities. The university system received $63 million from the federal CARES Act, of which 50 percent goes directly to students for coronavirus-related financial aid.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
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.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Just make the university 100% chinese students who pay full tuition. If native IL residents complain, just call them racist. When they steal american technology, just call Trump a xenophobe. See how this works? problem solved!