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.
Now here is a chance for some of Chicago’s news organization to do some real undercover reporting. If granny flats are approved they need to set up a couple of granny flats and see who has their hands out for cash to approve the wide variety of permits and inspections that will be needed to get these granny flats a certificate of occupancy(Think of the Mirage Bar.). Nah I am just dreaming…there is no corruption in Chicago…right?
Single family homes are just that, single family. Having an elderly parent is ok. Not framing 3-4 families in one house is not. If that’s what you want, try an apartment building. Cook county needs to enforce limitations on the number of families living in single family homes o protect the other homeowners.
And illegals are the biggest violators of this ordinance.