Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
What a lame column.
Worse than lame.
“While it is easy to suggest that under-enrolled schools should be closed or combined, former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s disastrous shuttering of 50 schools in 2013 led to thousands of students fleeing CPS, academic outcomes declining and thousands of families harmed by the “chaotic” process.Emanuel never grasped that school and community success are deeply intertwined. The next mayor will have to take a holistic view of CPS’ enrollment decline and draw strategic connections between educational policy, economic development and community investment.”“The mayor and board will have to find ways to increase revenue and cut costs with a $600 million shortfall predicted by 2025.”“A reimagined… Read more »
Would a candidate get elected if their platform answered these questions by stating they would push to close under utilized schools, would cut the budget, and would hire the best candidates regardless of race? If not, they must believe that voters don’t want that type of candidate.
Voters can keep their crappy, underutilized schools. Heck, they can vote for CPS to open underused schools, and build as many ‘ghost’ schools as China has ‘ghost cities’. But the only catch is that the voter has to find a way to pay to keep these crappy dumps open. They’ll have to pay the piper one way or another.
It’s only a shortfall until Chicago raises PTs to cover the shortfall. Once again, the taxpayer will bail out those who mismanage taxpayer funds.