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.
Saturday’s 10 AM shootings of three gangbangers in a Mag Mile public garage demonstrate desperate condition of Chicago downtown environment. Wow, it’s no longer safe to shop the Mag Mile shops – plain and simple, a tourist or a shopper has a reasonable expectation to witness, or worse, be directly impacted, by these frequent outbursts of street-crime gang activity. News of these shootings, nightly wildings in Loop, shootings and knifings and general ruckus in downtown areas, are duly noted in national and international news. Tourism and convention-related industries are likely to be severely impacted for several years, and may never… Read more »
No one wants to admit that the solution requires harassing, arresting & prosecuting large numbers of Black youths causing mayhem downtown. Everyone knows this but after a summer of BLM riots no one has any intention of doing it. And Chicago burns.
It’s looking like whichever one of the chosen (Lightfoot, Fox or Perpwinkle) becomes the next Mayor, Chicago will be the loser. Voting matters, sure it does. Really. Everyday, the puppet masters behind the curtain of Oz are regaling in their own hubris.