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.
“Maybe we should have done this years ago and that’s probably true,” said one in the group about it. Why yes, actually, that thought had occurred to me. For the most part, Chicago’s civic and business community has done nothing to head off the crisis that has been growing for years.