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.
Where’s Bernhard Goetz when you need him?
I stopped using the CTA a couple of years ago when I got on at Howard and every car was occupied with the sleeping homeless and pee ran down the aisle.
In college, worked near UIC. Took L from Loyola to Washington, switched trains to UIC and back to Loyola after 9pm. Never had a problem, though did run into few winos walking through tunnel connecting the two lines. Now there’s horror stories riding trains in daylight let alone changing trains at night. CTA used to be reliable part of Chicago, now, no wonder ridership down.