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.
Chicago has been lost! Thanks Kim, Lori, Toni and your team of liars and losers!
River North and Michigan Ave retail corridor now reek of reefer and urine, the sidewalks and streets untended, even when otherwise peaceable. That’s apparently the image-message, folks, that City Hall and Lightfoot are willing to telegraph to the world.
The entire Chicago region decided, without consulting Chicago, to give up on Chicago after the 2nd round of looting in August 2020. Any desire the region had to reinvest in Chicago turned into a desire to disinvest from Chicago. It’s quite possible that desire to disinvest affects the entire Chicago region based upon the 0 – yes zero – sq footage of office space under construction in the entire suburban market and the sub-market vacancy rates in the suburbs between 18-33%. According to Colliers in Q2 there were no office buildings under construction in the suburbs. That’s completely insane if… Read more »
There’s to many healthy, vibrant communities in safe and prosperous Red States to move to. It doesn’t make sense, but with Democrats having a Supermajority seems they really don’t care about high taxes, public safety, education, etc. etc..
Allstate is selling its campus. Work from home is going to make the vacancy rates huge,