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.
Chicago CPS owns a lot of vacant and/or underutilized school buildings. Voila! Easily convertible migrant housing for sanctuary city “recently-arrived investors in American Dream”, toilet-rooms, gyms, libraries, and classrooms for shared living-quarters. Thank Crains for snappy new identifier for our border-crashers.
an appropriate plan might include: List all potential illegal immigrant housing lands in Chicago, including yacht clubs, country clubs, Astor St. parks, Lincoln Park park districts; not just neighborhoods which lack resources to fight back against zoning law violations which cram ’emergency authority’ down the throats of non-politically-privileged communities. Spread illegal immigrants equally amongst all without special exemptions for poshy areas, or establish a lottery system to randomly draw the unlucky community which is forced to bear the expense and risk of hosting this service. Make ALL related expenses subject to Illinois and Chicago legal bidding requirement ordinances, including transparent… Read more »
Already happening in all neighborhoods.
Directly across Marine drive from Chicago’s newest ‘migrant’ shelter In Lake View (a high rent part of town), Chicago homeless residents are living in tent encampment squalor.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/letters/ct-letters-vp-072423-20230724-gigqdkgxjvfxzfr4wlh3lbqilq-story.html
Why is one group catered to and the other group ignored.