Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
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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
Can you put Forest Preserves on your toast?
Oops, the article mentioned some of the money from the property tax increase would be used for pensions.
Taxpayers are already paying way too much for pensions.
No.
No more money from us, the taxpayer.
You stole enough with the bail out money.
Live within your means. Find the savings.
This from someone who loves and uses the Forest Preserves a plenty.
Has anyone mentioned this amounts to a 50% increase to the CCFP budget? Seems like they buried the lede.
WHAT??????????? This editorial is complete garbage: + Beck’s Lake is the picture? Beck’s lake is adjacent to I-294! That picture is so misleading! + During the pandemic, more than 100,000 people a year visited the forest preserves, whose cumulative acreage is larger than almost 20 national parks. Cook County’s preserves had more than eight times the 14.1 million visits to the Great Smoky Mountains, the nation’s most popular national park. HUHHHH? THIS DOESN’T MAKE SENSE + The Cook County forest preserves are full of homeless people, creeps, criminals, pervs, and lots of large parties of illegal immigrants. There’s some wildlife… Read more »
Unlike the Smoky Mountains, the CCFP is in a metropolitan area and not a mountain range, so it makes sense that more people would visit. Central Park has over 40 million visitors a year yet is only a tiny fraction of the size of CCFP. So which is more successful?
You’re gravely mistaken, all the examples of undesirables are the employees.