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.
But aren’t these the same Hyde Park progressives who supported Biden’s Open Borders policies, who voted for Kamala? Open a 2nd shelter on UoChicago campus!
Sendy should have been named Seedy!
So now the socially progressive Hyde Park neighborhood gets to support a solution for homelessness that they say everyone else should be doing. I hear there will be lots of space in the Obama Center too. Oh the hypocrisy of these people.
Yup, you nailed it!!!, Brando’s base showing their NIMBY colors
also, team Brando’s silent on OC/ South Shore– “community benefits” agreement to protect the very same black folks Obama built his career ” community organizing” from displacement.
The Trib opines that better-off neighborhoods like Hyde park should bear some responsibility for humanitarian crises. Dear Trib: The better-off neighborhoods pay the bills. If property values decline for buildings that are contiguous to the shelter, there will be less money to pay the bills. Location, location, location.
Soto’s absence reflects Six Precent’s mayoral policy: We do what we want, it affects you, we don’t care. End of story.