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.
“Housing provider” actually is a more precise description than “landlord,” as the latter can be an owner of any kind of land. The name change distracts from numerous detailed changes which the ordinance makes, making the building owners’ situation a bit worse, and the tenants’ a bit better, at least as long as folks are willing to “provide” rental housing in Evanston.
“If the City Council adopts an ordinance up for introduction Monday night, your landlord will officially become a “housing provider” courtesy of the city’s language police, headed by Ald. Devon Reid (8th)….”
FYI Reid is the notorious Evanston Alderman who has been evicted *twice* in the last four years, lol..!!!
The new phrasing subtly reverses the arrow of obligation. “Landlord” implies the obligation of the tenant to pay his “lord” for housing. “Housing provider” implies an obligation to provide housing to a tenant.
It won’t be long before we hear that “housing providers” are not living up to their responsibility.
No better things to do in Evanston?
Sure, the place is a fiscal and anti – business mess, but everyone in Evanston puts “equity” virtual – signaling *first*…