Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
So, if I read this all correctly, the Cook County Assessor, Kaegi, says that it’s not his fault that the Cook County Board of Review didn’t over-rule enough of his unpopular property tax assessments. OK….. 40% of which go to some alderman’s and/or mayor’s progressive special-project-of-the-moment TIF fund, that should have already solved/fixed one of the woke/equity/diversity/underinvested/broke problems with which Chicago remains hopelessly plagued. And that of this $3 billion dollars in annual property taxes, homeowner’s property taxes increased at a far higher rate than commercial property’s taxes because the County Board of Review over-ruled Kaegi’s assessments, and reduced the… Read more »