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.
When the original Mayor Daley, Richard J.,the one called (Boss), was in office, the Police and Fire had response times of less than 3 minutes. Every call was a priority call.
Now, not so much.
I’d like to know how “ lawless intent “ could be considered. Cleaning up crime in a city unable ( or unwilling ) to isn’t a bad thing. Let’s face it, the last three Chiefs or Superintendents of police have been unmitigated disasters: Johnson, Brown and now Snelling. Johnson relieved amid a sex scandal and found passed out ( and suspected intoxicated ) at a stop sign, Brown from Dallas in way over his head and proclaiming “ We can’t arrest our way out of crime.” and now Snelling, a police academy physical ed instructor that apparently never walked a… Read more »
There’s no improvement it’s just the way CPD reports crime that’s even if they show up for a call anymore.
Do you have evidence of number fudging that accounts for the scale of difference in the numbers?
Or is this a “Surely, they must be…”?