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.
Has she lifted the rule on who is allowed to use her towns bathrooms yet?
Mayor Thompson is in a difficult position. I wonder whether her public works department might discover that repairs are urgently needed to the water supply and/or sewer system serving the ICE facility, and will require evacuating the space for an extended period. Or perhaps something even more creative.
I’ve seen the videos online from the Chicago area facility. It’s several hundred agitators, at most, causing chaos and mayhem day after day. The Trump administration should be able to crush the agitators in a weekend. But the protestors are politically useful to politicians so it is allowed to continue. The Evanston mayor and Jan Schaakowskiy’s replacement candidate are out there ‘protesting’ every day, getting publicity and likes on social media. It would be so easy to crush this civil disorder, lock these people up, and never hear from them again.
The mayor seems to have taken a reasonable approach to limiting protesting to certain places and basically business hours (how many protesters work and had to turn on their out of office email auto replies?). She may want the facility closed for a variety of reasons not the least being practical local public safety but that’s unlikely to happen. Why can’t protesters live with reasonable rules?
The center had been there for years before the paid Marxist agitators, with help from Latinoleftists and other bots, made a thing of it.
Want safety, ask the protestors to stay home (or actually work) and don’t interfere with law enforcement doing their job.
She said she wants to permanently shut down the facility and said that the protests and feuds with federal agents cause division, pain, and fear in the community. I think the government of the once great state of Illinois is causing the problems she mentioned. Our politicians pretending that immigration laws don’t apply here in our state. Over the many years of my life , I have worker with, been neighbor to many illegal aliens. I have also been friends with some. As individuals many are good people but as a group they are a huge problem for our country… Read more »