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.
Yes, but for whom will Chicago be more affordable – for the low-income residents at the expense of the middle-class?
#1. Reparations
#2. Reparations
#3. Reparations
The end.
The Great Leaving is already happening. Smallish 60 year old split levels in my decided not-Chicago suburb are listed at $500,000 and selling quickly as anyone with an IQ higher than 100 realizes that it’s now or never to get out of Chicago. I’m not entirely convinced that Chicago will collapse like Detroit, but the bad areas of Chicago proper will expand, and housing prices across the board in most areas will collapse accordingly. The 1970’s were bad times for most inner-cities yet the suburbs thrived: St. Louis, NYC, LA, Cleveland, Baltimore, etc. Will the suburbs in Chicago collapse just… Read more »
Debtsor, Detroit suburbs and Detroit city proper were 2 separate entities for decades after Coleman Young came on the scene.
Now though, the greater portion of Detroit lives in the Detroit suburbs and by and large with some regional exceptions Detroit city proper is domiciled by the underclass.
The City of Chicago will collapse in its own special way. Think of Bowmanville looking like present day Highland Park, Michigan.
Safer and More Affordable will never happen with the Chicago Teachers Union puppet running the city. In fact, expect the exact opposite to happen and it starts on Monday