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.
CPS has again demonstrated thieves rule the day. I’m going to become a consultant for CPS. CPS should recruit by claiming you’ll be allowed to steal as long as you share or kick up. It’s just like the city council; all you can steal! Whatever happened to Tunney? He’s been very quite and out of sight. Is it still the blind pig he was running?
Is this a “more payroll more pensions” situations or has that been fixed for new hires?
There are approx 340,658 students in Chicago’s public schools at a cost of $9.3B which is $27,300 per student. This is approaching Rondout Dist 72 which has 130 students with 17 teachers at approx $30K per student.Student/teacher ratio at Rondout is 8:1
A sad state of affairs when a local school district depends on the Fed for 11% of its budget. Imagine if every school district operated this way.