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.
So happy they finally got a CEO selected….gosh, I have been on the edge of my seat for months! I am sure the world will change with this selection and I am sure retired Ald. Walter Burnett (who will now get wealthy on the exorbitant government salary he will undoubtably get) will follow the directives of the Mayors office. Those directives I am sure, will be to Stand Up, Fight, Focus on Working Families, defund ICE, Hate Trump and make sure you hire only Black folk (as he says). Along the way there will be contracts to be assigned to… Read more »
Sorry – read the article wrong. The other guy was selected to grift the department. Nevermind…