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.
Here in Rockford we have had double digit property tax hikes a couple of times but not double digit home values. We are up 6% for 2019 and 2018 about flat for most. Before that mostly negative for many years. They should talk to me when tax rates approach that of Rockford (14.27% on 1/3rd value or about 4.25% of total) and I’ll give them an ear full. For example a $469K home here tax’s are $21,495.37 and an equal value home in zip 60625 Lincoln Square are about $9Kless than 1/2. Now they will see that when tax’s rise… Read more »