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.
Hammonds a wierd place, its gigantic, still has a lot of manufacturing industrial tax base, you can buy a home there and live for peanuts, the downtown buildings have some charm, you can commute to downtown chicago as easily as any suburb. You would think with think with everyone fleeing chicago it would be booming..but its not. Used to hang out with friends 15 years ago who lived there and were involed in attempted town revival ..