Mark Glennon

1 week ago | wirepoints.org | Mark Glennon

May 28, 2025 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email "I’m talking about the city’s chronic reliance on high-priced private law firms, instead of its large, well-funded legal department, to defend lawsuits against the Chicago Police Department — particularly civil rights cases involving misconduct, brutality, and wrongful convictions. We’re not talking about a few consultants here and there. It’s a legal gravy train that’s diverted over $250 million to outside attorneys in the last decade alone, with...

1 week ago | wirepoints.org | Mark Glennon

Most people don’t know the difference between a million and a billion, and nobody exploits that ignorance more shamelessly than some of our politicians. It’s on full display with the Cook County’s $15 million “relief fund” for homeowner grants to counter oppressive property taxes. The trouble is, Cook County residential owners pay over $11 billion in property taxes every year. That means the fund provides relief for just one-one hundredth of one percent of residential taxes paid in the county.

1 week ago | wirepoints.org | Mark Glennon

May 27, 2025 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email A Wall Street rating agency on Tuesday assigned an A- bond rating to Mayor Brandon Johnson’supcoming plan to borrow more than $600 million for infrastructure, housing and economic development, but revised the outlook to “negative,” signaling a future downgrade. Fitch said the negative outlook is “driven by a lack of substantial progress procuring permanent, high-impact solutions” to a structural budget gap of $1.12 billion — 20% of the corporate...

1 week ago | wirepoints.org | Mark Glennon

May 27, 2025 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Chicago tripling the nation's home price growth is the main takeaway from Crain's monthly dip into the real estate data. Chicago's strong housing market when others are weakening is the other side of the coin from the 2010s, when local home prices here grew at about half the speed of the nation's. Read the Article SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER Home Page Signup First Last Check all you would like to receive: FOLLOW US Wirepoints...

1 week ago | wirepoints.org | Mark Glennon

May 26, 2025 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Rahm Emanuel, never humble about his political skills, is trying to accomplish something that seems far-fetched even for him: push his Democratic Party—rooted in the identity politics of the left—to the center. Read the Article SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER Home Page Signup First Last Check all you would like to receive: FOLLOW US Wirepoints on Facebook Follow @wirepoints WIREPOINTS ORIGINAL STORIES Memorial Day May 26, 2025 No...