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.
Translation…..he is not getting his!!
The Bears ae as inept on stadium plans as they are on the football field. As I have said many times before, they will be playing in Soldier Field ten years from now– and probably longer. As long as the McCaskeys own the team, they will never put together a proposal that anyone– legislators, taxpayers or neighborhood groups– will support. Arlington Heights was never going to work. By my count, this is the sixth or seventh Bears proposal over the years in various locations that has stalled out. They are just incredibly incompetent.
Are the Bears using the Arlington Heights property as leverage with Arlington Heights and the City or as a fall back option? If they have $2 billion to put toward a lakefront stadium surely the property taxes in Arlington Heights are not a showstopper there. And if Wirtz & Reinsdorf can fund a $7 billion United Center area development surely they can build a ballpark on their own if they truly want one. Is that $7 billion project to be used as leverage/horse trading for a ballpark?