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.
Hotel rooms in Chicago are EXPENSIVE. Crazy expensive.
Business groups aren’t coming to downtown Chicago because of the crime issue and poor business climate. They see Griffin, Caterpillar, and Boeing bailing out of Chicago. Tourism will decline with the end of the summer. Residents outside of Chicago aren’t coming downtown either. Decades of failed economic policies are finally hitting the fan.
Distressed? Do you really mean ready to collapse from the deadweight of Democratic Leadership? May throw in a dose of DIE! The only thing I look at in the trip are the obits, future voters roll! Does anyone remember when the Defender bought the Trib?
Loop is headed for the mother of all real estate collapses — office workers are not coming back — business travel has been rendered obsolete by Zoom — and leisure travel will be killed off by Dementia Joe having crashed the economy. On top of all that, downtown is an unflushed crime toilet (with a 30 Percent retail vacancy rate and climbing) and at night/on the weekends you would think you were in Englewood.
LOL, downtown at night or weekends isn’t Englewood, but instead, Grand Theft Auto the video game…