Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
McCaskeys realize their season ticket-holders are reluctant to come to downtown Chicago post-Covid, given the rampant street-crime and random shootings. Why, even Lake Shore Drive now has frequent day-time drive-by shootings, several per week, actually covered by media and sometimes national press. It’s a real issue for Chicago, though ineffectively addressed by Lightfoot and her lightweight CPD Chief Brown, and mostly trivialized by Trib and SunTimes (until very recently). It’s a real issue for Chicago business leaders, including McCaskeys, who are very worried about business outcome and unwillingness-unhappiness of their employees to return to downtown offices and businesses, given genuine… Read more »
Move now Bears- Chicago is a cess pool and will continue to decline for years to come thanks to all the dumbocrats!
The same day that hell freezes over will be the same day the McCaskeys write the check for the race track. Neither of these actions will happen because global warming will keep hell pretty hot and the McCaskeys are such skinflints. They won’t do it because they won’t want to spend their own money. The deal will have to be paid for with our tax dollars before the McCaskeys to agree to take ownership. It would take an Arlington Heights/Cook County cabal to come up with the cash to buy the track and build a new stadium. Preckwinkle hates Lori… Read more »
I’ve heard the team will have inheritance tax problems when ma dies off and a new stadium is one way to shelter the money. Don’t know the specifics but it would make sense. Can’t sell a portion of team to pay taxes. A entire team can’t just pAss to heirs tax free with inheritance taxes these days. Must be sold or must have no value hence tied up value of team in some debt ladened stadium and avoid taxes and keep in family.
Thank blm for another major organization who have had their fill of Chicago’s crime, taxes and a totally racist mayor, city council and black caucus.
The one good thing BLM did!
Go bears go Arlington Heights awesome along with a casino and hotels, shopping complex for a nice weekend away hell ya, GO BEARS GO.
Whaaaat! Leave the beautiful Soldier Field! Blasphemy! The visiting team will be dressing in the stables, hay and pies everywhere! My Bears plating in a race track? Why it’s unthinkable!