Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Chicago Ald. Anthony Napolitano, also a former Chicago police officer, weighs in on one of more than 100 laws signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in one day: "Illinois is always trying to be the most progressive state that there is. Nothing is ever done for Illinois' people; it's always for the political agenda."
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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.
It’s Globalist in its diminishment of citizenship.
About 30-40 years ago, Chicago Police Department was being infiltrated by gangs.
To combat the problem CPD raised the entrance level to 23 years old and required 60 college credit hours. Once things were under control they reduced the application age to 21, but maintained the 60 credit hour requirement. PLUS you had to be a U.S. citizen.
Now members of MS13 and any other gang can start infiltrating again. And I’m sure the governor will soon mandate no college credit needed. He has no idea the tragedy he is unleashing between this ridiculous new law AND no bail.
Pritzger knows exactly what he is doing. He is a tyrant!
Hola Senor! We are the Federalis, you know the police.
If you’re the police where are your badges?
Badges? Badges? We dont need no stinkin’ badges!
(Treasure of Sierra Madre)
Cartel members will be first in line to carry a gun and a badge.
One of the most RECKLESS ideas coming from Pritzker.
Stop the madness!!!
Why not UN peacekeepers?
This is Pritzger showing off how good a Democrat communist state he can create. with all the other communist legislators of Illinois.
This will give him points as a Presidential candidate running a 3rd world communist presidency.
Non Lawyer here but how is this Legal
An illegal alien, who broke multiple laws to illegally enter our country and probably has forged documents at best, will soon be asking for your ‘papers’. Is this marxism or what? I’m sure the corrupt IL supremes are just fine with this,
License, registration and proof of insurance please…..out of the mouth of an illegal.
Worse – show me your FOID and CC permit.
We’re facing a dynamic where non-citizen “recently arriving migrant dreamers” enjoy greater economic benefits, despite their technically illegal residency status, than low-income long-time Illinois residents with legal residency status, whether as US citizens or “green-card” legal residents. These “newly arrived migrants” cost Chicago $225/day/migrant, per CBS article. If and when housed in individual market-rate residential housing, same migrants receive a $15,000 housing voucher. Migrants have no work requirement to receive vouchers, nor face any “volunteer labor” requirement or encouragement while housed in shelters. We certainly aren’t spending same amount on our poor citizens. There are a lot of poor US… Read more »
And that will change the nature of the immigrants we attract. In the past, they came here to work, and work their asses off they did. Now we are attracting the freeloaders.
When an illegal arrives in America, the first word they learn is welfare, and the second word they learn is lawsuit. A parasite plague.
Illinois democrats degrade the ideal of citizenship — like they degrade everything else that is needed for a healthy society.