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.
Needs a spray paint store, maybe the locals can dress it up, Chicago style
The concrete garbage can bringing a mix of Soviet and Sith architecture to Chicago’s lakefront is a perfect metaphor for Barry Soetero’s mercifully short time in office. That the project is completely mismanaged should surprise no one.
An ugly building arrogantly bigfootee onto a park is bad enough. Cost overruns are common on projects of size, but from $350 million to $850 million? And at those numbers it will self sustain? Uh huh.
Let Obama’s chosen, incompetent folks build the damn thing and watch the lawsuits roll in when it collapses soon after opening. I’d love to see the arrogant divider cleaned out by civil lawsuits.