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.
The lack of logic on all of this is appalling. Metra and the CTA are trying to keep their suburban to downtown schedules alive to bring in workers from the suburbs, while the jobs aren’t downtown any longer. So you want affordable housing downtown to fill the floor space left empty by fleeing businesses, and the jobs aren’t downtown any longer. Do we need affordable housing for Google workers? Of course not. Nobody has a plan. The Governor and the Mayor (whoever that is going to be) are out to lunch completely on this. Affordable tenants do not support high… Read more »
It’s beyond appalling, it defies any level of thought or assumes crime will one controlled.downtown is dead!don’t bother with any halfassed measures to make it attractive; like more bike lanes. Lori should be held financially libel for the whole shebang!
It is a dead issue, downtown is a goner, DOA.
Google will back out in due time. No one wants to be where there is lots of crime.
Cops do not want to be there either.