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.
It’s not a perception, it’s reality. A few weeks ago there was a shootout in the Godfrey Hotel, a few days ago there was a fatal shooting in a Streeterville hotel. Chicago is deadly and tourists are wisely staying away.
Yet Northern WI is booming like never before. Mostly at the expense of Chicago.
https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/a-tourism-boom-has-wisconsins-northern-destinations-scrambling-to-keep-up/
My summer trip is up north and it was planned after cities removed all their corona restrictions.