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.
Having been born and raised in the DePaul area I can relate to the increase in property values.
More power to the developers who invested in a usable but run-down area and turned it around. The property our three-flat house was on is now home to a $1.27 million home.
Neighbors who rode the wave ended up with valuable properties; those of us who left did not.
Choose to ride the wave or get out of the water – it’s the residents’ choice.
“When Christian Mejía’s parents settled in Logan Square in the late ’80s, the neighborhood was a welcoming landing place.”
Now do a story about the migrants that replaced the former residents of Logan Square. How did they accept their neighborhood quickly turning from English to Spanish? This is just another example of the “We are in charge and you are not” mentality that is pervasive in Chicago. Neighborhoods change all the time but its only ‘bad’ when it is gentrification.