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.
Talk to a CPD beat cop and they will tell you 50% (at least) of the calls to 911 are non-emergencies. Numerous times they are sent to a “domestic disturbance” only to find that it’s a mother trying to get her 6-year old kid to brush his teeth before bedtime. 911 is a tool that too many citizens abuse. I don’t know if CPD keeps data on numbers that frequetly call 911 for non-emergencies and pushes them into lower priority. but I wouldn’t blame them if they did.
The money saved from lower police employees can now be spent on hiring hundreds of mental health professionals to respond to domestic disturbances, nut jobs, and the my baby be not taken his medications calls. Dollar saved, dollars spent, it’s the city’s way of doing business