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A sharp cut in projected water use - from an initial 5 million to 6 million gallons of water per day to now 20 million gallons per year - comes as welcome news for Joliet, which, with five other towns, is building a $1.4 billion, 31-mile pipeline to buy Lake Michigan water from Chicago starting in 2030. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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It’s not mainly the water- it’s the ELECTRICITY- the INFRASTRUCTURE NECESSARY gets picked up by regular folks while PNG/COM ED cuts DEALS with the DATA CENTER. This is a slippery slope.With the ONLY LOCAL JOBS are TEMPORARY construction. The ACTUAL DATA CENTER JOBS GO TO FOREIGN VISA HOLDERS.
The more affluent liberal Democrats don’t want these in the western and suburbs like Naperville and Lisle ,they’ll all be put in southern areas. Hypocrites.
I’m guessing that this thing, whose estimated water use seems to fluctuate in estimates depending on how worked up people get about it, will use the pipeline from Lake Michigan that New Lenox residents are currently paying for as part of their monthly water bill, which increases by about half one month, then goes down, then goes up no matter if one’s water usage increases or not. While residing there my bill would be approximately $80 one month ( for an apartment using water for bathroom and cooking only- no dishwasher or laundry) and $110 the next month, only to… Read more »