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.
Mayor Raggedy outfoxed again? Say it ain’t so, Joe!
Last I read, ShotSpotter said they were not going to renew with Chicago. Sounds a bit sus now that they did renew short term. What kind of company would renew the contract short term, when a mayor says their product is racist?
Indications are that it was renewed through the summer at only slightly less than the cost of a whole year’s contract. That mayor Raggedy is about as good with numbers as Janet ( Inflation is good!) Yellen.
“Shot-spotter” is requirement of DNC contract with City of Chicago. Only reason contract was extended short-term.