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.
Interesting that the city chose to increase parking again. Likely wise to avoid any location that charges more than $5 to park your car. At one time downtown was the place to be, and they had you by the short hairs regarding parking. Now you need to be focused on your safety, it is very overpriced, and there are much better experiences in many suburbs. Parking is free there.
We live close enough to Chicago, but I very seldom frequent it and can’t remember the last time I paid for parking for the reasons you noted. Now they’re increasing parking fees again? That brilliant logic must come from the same leaders who want to increase taxes on millionaires.