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Brown was the obvious frontrunner — and the recommended choice of Police Board President Ghian Foreman — after the board announced a list of three finalists. Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 25, 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.
“I have every confidence that David O’Neal Brown will be the kind of leader who will continue our gains in fighting crime. Bridge existing divides between police and community. Embrace constitutional policing as a core ethos. And make the Chicago Police Department the finest in the nation,” Lightfoot said.
When you can stand there with a straight face and say this…you know we are in for a very long, very hard road. Exactly what gains ? Is there and media left that can even ask a single important question such as this ?