Just like the passenger airlines before them, cargo air carriers are not supporting the Peotone idea. 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 politicians who dreamed up this idea of a 3rd airport an 1.5 hour drive away from Chicago were thrilled that they, their family, friends and donors would make a fortune because they had inside information and bought up hundreds of acres of cheap farm land 30yrs ago and would sell it back at 10x what they paid for it. They are still waiting to cash in and will push until they get theirs not matter how dumb the idea is.
In the meantime having leased the land out to farmers – or more likely some non-family farming corporation – and pulled in far more income than the debt-service on their original investment. They’re going to take money to the bank in wheelbarrows no matter what happens. Such a dumb idea – always has been – that still has enough juice among the union–n-guvmn’t-n-investor cabals in Cook County and Springfield that it just won’t ever go away. They all see big $ signs. Like watching the Mafia decide who gets what in a mob movie. They don’t care that they’ll stick… Read more »
This airport is only in the best interest of one group of people Politicians