Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
What is wrong with using university dorms. Lots of empty beds. You would think the universities would be falling all over themselves to offer the state their facilities. I mean aren’t these places full of virtuous and magnanimous individuals
McCormick Place has lots of electrical outlets, internet and plumbing drains. It has huge parking lots. The infrastructure is just better there than some dorms.
You haven’t seen some of these new dorms? Plus many of these dorms are near hospitals.
Speaking of which, I wonder if the voracious unions at McCormick Place will be up to their usual tricks like requiring a union electrician whenever you plug a cord into the wall. Maybe that’s why Lightfoot picked it.
I guess some universities are doing this already … https://www.chronicle.com/article/If-Coronavirus-Patients/248288
Call it St Groot’s