Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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According to Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois has already pardoned and expunged nearly 800,000 low-level convictions after the legalization of marijuana in 2020. More than 15,000 of those cannabis-related convictions have been expunged by Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.
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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
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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 a little absurd that the police have to basically prove their entire case BEFORE arresting the culprit. If it were up to the police, they would just arrest the culprit at probable cause to get him off the streets and continue building the case. Surely there is some middle ground between the police just arresting some person on flimsy evidence and building the entire case and letting this rapist escape or commit more crimes. I mean, they just said we know who he is, why doesn’t he just running away?