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.
Oh, oh my Mr Mayor. If true it does appear you are personally responsible.
It is amazing how short peoples’ memories are. Mike McCaskey thought he had a deal worked out in Gary until Rich Daley told him he should check the construction schedule on the Skyway. Rich assured him the Skyway would be closed for construction every Sunday in the fall. Whoops– no way to get there from Illinois without the Skyway.
If the Bears leave Chicago – and it’s not out of the realm of possibilities given the hemming and hawing the owners are doing right now about the new stadium – they’ll move to a SunBelt state so George McCasky can retire in a no income state. There’s a number of markets that really want a football team – Orlando, Austin, San Antonio, Louisville, even St. Louis is begging for a team back….