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.
Send some of those “migrants” Gov. Abbott is sending to Union Station to Oak Park to “integrate” it. Ought to be fun to watch the reactions.
Oak Park segregates by property values and property taxes. Unless you’re going to rent an apartment on the east side of town or along Harlem Ave, you have to be upper-middle class to afford to live there.
Anyone who can afford a Frank Lloyd Wright home is upper class.
Oak Park constituency is self-selecting crowd too which makes that work. You could offer me a lifetime residency, for free, the nicest home in Oak Park, and I wouldn’t take it. I’d live in downstate Metropolis and enjoy living there before I stepped foot in Oak Park. Same goes for Evanston.