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.
So, like climate, tastes change – it is the inexorable march of life… The two-flat had a time – it had a purpose – now, tastes have changed. If there is anything we should be nostalgically missing it is the values and standards and expectations that were common in our society and in our assimilation into our “communities”. Ditto affordable housing – markets do what markets do – none of us is entitled to anything other than our own pursuit of happiness based on those attributes that are God given and those that we can control – effort, integrity, sacrifice,… Read more »
A city that doesn’t constantly destruct and construct will die. They should be happy the area is vibrant and people are investing at all in their real estate, regardless if a two flat becomes a two story single family home. Sheesh.
“Now you go through Lincoln Park and it looks like the suburbs,”
Uh, no it doesn’t not at all. Lamenting the loss of 2 flats doesn’t mean it’s turning into the suburbs. There are mid and high rise condo buildings all over lincoln park. I don’t know of any suburb that looks like that.