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Lightfoot also said over Twitter that the city would increase its coronavirus response team and deploy approximately 2,000 city workers, including up to 550 contact tracers, and hundreds of community-based organizations to reach at least half of Chicago's households.
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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
Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Why don’t we lockdown all govt employees. Permanently
Groot and the Dictator are admitting they failed.
Didn’t work the last time, won’t work this time.
It’s a virus……
Lori is again living in her authoritarian world. As layoffs continue the city workers still play.
Maybe some layoffs are in order but union contracts need to be looked at as a whole throughout the entire state. More contributions to medical care, no more freebies bring it in line like the private sector. No more exuberant accumulation of sick and comp days, us them or loose them just like the private sector. Wages and salaries need to come into line also.
The whole thing is BS
To be clear Newsweek “journalists”: Queen Lightfoot has issued an illegal and unenforceable lockdown.