Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles Mayoral Race Offers Chicago a Blueprint
June 4, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Audio and summary 
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.
Turn the office buildings into weed farms.
One of those plans turned State street into a mall, look how that worked out. Just let the free market decide the best development for the city.
Ghetto
I expect to see a fair amount of section 8 housing in the Loop, and all that goes with that.
Downtown Chicago in 20 years will look like the movie Escape from New York.
Anything from a Charlton Heston Movie. But it won’t just be Chicago but most democratic run cities. Look at Portland or Baltimore. Maybe buildings downtown should sacrifice a lamb and paint a red X over the doorway like in the movie The Ten Commandments which now are merely suggestions. The events that going on in the world suggests WWIII is just around the corner. Now Sudan is going nuts and China will try to takeover Taiwan and North Korea can’t wait to drop a nuke or some missiles somewhere and the Mideast is a powder keg. When George Santos tells… Read more »
My wife’s Fed agency deliberately schedules as many of their Baltimore-located national training center meetings for winter months as they can manage.
They admit that it’s not safe to walk those downtown tourist areas in the summer when the kids take over.
That’s exactly what Chicago’s become.
RoboCop? The Purge? Soylent Green?
All three!
Detroit
In the list of causes for empty retail and office space, crime is not mentioned. They could hardly bring themselves to even say “civic unrest”.
They would have to acknowledge the out of control 13% demographic.