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.
What the article fails to mention from county officials as always is the taxes not collected from an abandoned property is made up by increasing the tax rate due to Ptell. As long as there is a value and a tax bill attached to the property everyone else in the county/city pats a higher tax rate. The city does not lose any money other than maintenance costs like mowing. With Ptell the taxing bodies get what was levied “not billed or collected” from the year before plus up to 5% of 1/2 of inflation whichever is less. My tax bill… Read more »