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.
What was their first clue? The constant head count every Monday for the last 30 years of the shot or killed over the past weekend? Just curious. Over the last 30 years how many thousands of the victims were black and did any of their lives matter to BLM? We all know the answer.
If I had an armed entourage of bodyguards I would feel safe too.
How can that be? Our Governor just told Bret Baier that everything in Chicago was safe? And he’d never lie to us, right?
Wallethub changes with the breeze and is about as credible as Kamala Harris.
They are about as credible as a Moody’s rating.
JB and BH says it’s #1 in safety just ask them.
Jumbo Pritzger and the boneheaded mayor would strongly disagree.
Bring back ShotSpotter to Chicago.
Chicago’s far left leaders have it all wrong. Chicago is pro-crime and Cook County courts are corrupt. And the so-called paid peacekeepers only add to the chaos and waste taxpayer money.
The root cause of crime is the human heart.
Read The Truth in True Crime by J. Warner Wallace.
Good article. Particularly interesting is the comparison between Aurora and Chicago. Aurora has ShotSpotter and that is an effective tool for police. Chicago’s mayor ended ShotSpotter–check out Brandon’s Bodies on CWB Chicago. Aurora has a CrimeFree Multi-Housing Program so that landlords can partner with police to reduce crime in rental properties. Chicago is a terrible place to be a landlord. A landlord could possibly be sued for refusing to rent to someone with a criminal record. And if a violent tenant threatens a landlord or a property manager or another tenant, little can be done and an eviction drags on… Read more »