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.
Helmut Jahn wanted to be so avant garde with this building that his product was designed for failure. If you equate avant garde with weirdness, impracticality, impossible heating and cooling as well as wasted space he succeeded spectacularly. Tear it down, it is a horrible mistake.
Yea, the place is a dump! Let’s save it! Let Barack buy it and build his shrine downtown. Better yet just move the shrine right in! Everybody is happy?
This building is a perfect metaphor for the dysfunction of IL. Why would anyone want to save it?