Around 6,160 new apartment units are expected to be built across Chicago this year, down from roughly 8,970 in 2020, according to a new report. 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 believe that new apartment construction has moved to the suburbs.
I’m watching it happen all along the commuter rails in lake county. The cities have failed, so those that can are leaving.
Has been the Illinois plan for quite a while.
Search CMAP “Go to 2040”
Between
— high taxes
— over-regulation
— affordable housing confiscation
— astro-turf protesters/neighborhood NIMBYs
— green energy mandates
the idea of building in Chicago is a loser
So is the idea of living in Chicago.