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.
I always take financial advice from a skulk with an office under a viaduct.
Alderman, have a staff person do ten minutes of research for you will you please. It is called “fiduciary obligation’– which means fund managers are supposed to be motivated by one thing only– maximizing returns for beneficiaries. They don’t do economic development, or tourism promotion, or social engineering projects or any other hair brained objective some ill informed politician might dream up. Pretty basic principle that the Chairman of a committee ought to know already.
Why aren’t pensions doing direct investments in real estate for economic development, Villegas asked. Who wants to explain Pensions 101 to him?
CalPERS owns a significant stake in Oakbrook Center.
Only natural that CTU would invest in a crooked business like Chicago real estate, where Obama BFF Tony Rezko was the poster boy for insider corruption