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By law the process should take 30 days. But ISP said the average wait time has ballooned to 122. “No one would wait 160 days for the Comcast guy to come to your house,” one applicant said.
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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.
Illinois State Police who process FOID cards are too busy enforcing governor Blimpo’s quarantine orders and shutdown restrictions. Class action should be filed and make them pay.
I keep saying it but imagine what the founding fathers would do to these seditious politicians. When I say founding fathers I don’t mean GW or TJ or BF. I’m talking about the normal people. It is so obvious that these career politicians are nothing but thug mafiosos in league with the corporations and foreign communists governments. If you don’t get on board they extort you with the Epstein islands of the world and use big tech to pull the wool over our eyes. It is becoming more and more obvious every day that there will come a great unveiling.… Read more »
Backdoor gun control
is Springfield afraid what may be forthcoming