Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
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"But here’s the number that should wake (Gov. JB) Pritzker in the wee hours: 364,443 Illinoisans decided they no longer wanted to live here, just since 2020. There is no stronger message they could send that they disapprove of how the state’s politicians are treating them, their taxes, their jobs and houses."
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Brazen election interference: Illinois Democrats retroactively change law to knock out Republican challengers. Surely, lawsuits must follow. – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
Chicago needs more champions of literacy like Willie Wilson – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
Don’t fall for the “progressive-income-tax-for-property-tax-relief” tax swap referendum – Wirepoints
May 6, 2024
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While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
Pritzker doubles down with $827 million of taxpayer money for expansion by troubled electric vehicle maker, Rivian – Wirepoints
May 3, 2024
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At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
Again, I cannot stress this enough: HE WANTS YOU GONE. There is no place for you, deplorable, in a progressive utopia.
You best leave before he imprisons you for your illegal unregistered long rifle, deplorable. Bubba at Menard is looking for a cellmate.
JB should check with Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott. Their states are growing nicely.
What? “364,443 Illinoisans decided they no longer wanted to live here since 2020.” CARNIVAL BARKERS!!!!!! Shaddayp!!!
The thing is so many believe Pritzker’s carnival barker comment which reminds me of a comment sometimes attributed to PT Barnum of “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public;” something that Pritzker has utilized to the fullest