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.
Emmanuel Chris Welch was the head of the Proviso School Board which was accused of awarding no bid contracts and to which the Illinois State Board of Education has assigned a Financial Oversight Panel, which puts them in the bottom 1% of school districts.
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The vast majority of locally elected school boards see charter schools as a threat to their empire, diverting money from the school district they were elected to oversee, and do everything in their power to fight charter schools.