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"In Chicago, it is reported that 64% of respondents to a recent poll said they felt unsafe. The only state reporting a higher rate of perception of worsening crime was New York at 70%. While crime, whether through direct or indirect experience, impacts everyone differently, the perception of growing corruption and criminal activity plays a critical role in individual decisions made every day."
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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
Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Let’s ask that woman who was robbed at rifle-point in Wicker Park. Or the other people robbed by same gang, same morning, with same rifle. CPD police spotted gang’s vehicle, were ordered to not pursue. Open season on pedestrians here in Chicago.
Seems like a rhetorical question already answered by countless examples, by countless mugging victims here in Chicago, here in 2023, here experiencing the Reign of Terror known as the Mayor BJ year.
The 64% of Chicagoans who feel unsafe will still vote for clowns like states attorney Foxx, Raoul, Pritzger, Durbin, Duckworth, biden and any other candidate with a “D” after their name. When those unsafe city voters become crime victims the usual response will be, “It’s Trump’s fault”.
The main problem is Foxx, Preckwinkle and Evans. None of the voters realize it, they always blame the Mayor and the Police Superintendent. The current Mayor is not going to make it any better but you need to start by replacing Foxx, Preckwinkle and Evans.
And half of those voters still blame ‘systemic racism’ and ‘poverty’ for crime instead of the police. Some of these idiots blame the police for crime too – AOC once said when arguing in favor of defunding the police that a world without cops was like the suburbs. The unfortunate reality is that many voters want to live in a world of crime. They believe it is more important to fight ‘mass incarceration’ of ‘black and brown folks’ than it is to stop crime. And this is not hyperbole, a lot of the world voluntarily lives in high crime areas… Read more »