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.
Andy Shaw has supported the same democrats who are responsible for the situation on our street today. Go cry your crocodile tears somewhere else. Twit!
Only now he feels scared? Crime doubled in Logan Square during the pandemic. Really, never thought of Logan Square as particularly safe anyway.
I lived in Chicago for decades–as a lower middle-class woman, I felt scared many times. I had to take public transportation home late at night; I’ve been mugged; had drug dealers living next door……
I took NRA’s Refuse to be a Victim class, etc. etc. but getting out of Chicago helped a lot.
He’s full of crap if he fears for his safety for the first time in 40 years. Chicago was more violent in the 80’s and 90’s. Not just more murders but more shootings, more violent crimes, more drive bys, more horrific crimes. Everyone seems to forget that Gacy was roaming the streets in the 70’s, The satanic Ripper Crew abducted and murdered a suspected 18 people during the early 1980’s, and Brighton Park, which includes Englewood, had these insane stats for the first 11 months of 1990: 136 homicides, 463 criminal sexual assaults, 2,003 armed robberies, 1,691 strongarm robberies and… Read more »
Your milk-toast career of reporting played a role in it, whether you want to believe it or not.
Andy Shaw remains blind, or chooses to make no mention of, the elephant in the room.
Andy I’ve got some bad news for you. Take it from a well meaning ex-Detroiter. The city you used to know is gone for good. The cemeteries in Detroit are full of guys waiting for it to come back.
Hah!
No northern rust belt city has ever come back. They just rust away. Chicago will look nice for a long time, but it’s being hollowed out by the Dems, and they don’t care. It’s their goal and their plan is working.