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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot emerged from the Illinois General Assembly's abbreviated session bruised by new legislation that will worsen the city's financial woes and weaken her hand with public-sector unions. One bill passed in the session sweetens Chicago firefighter pensions, adding hundreds of millions of dollars to the city's pension tab. Another gives the Chicago Teachers Union, already one of the sharpest thorns in the mayor's side, bargaining powers it lost in 1995. And leaders in the Illinois Senate are committed to taking away her power to appoint school board members even though the effort is delayed for now.
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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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Summary and audio linked here.
Why would the Democrats who run Springfield deny a Black woman what she needs?
It is just amazing that with the common knowledge of IL’s financial woes primarily caused by pensions, and plenty of calls for sweeping pension reform, THIS is what the legislature has done. I’m done believing they are ignorant, and/or stupid. This is evil.
I agree. I’m done too. Call it what it is.