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.
“That means the old valuation was really way too low,” he said. “One of the facts about Cook County, sadly for the past years if not decades, is that the property valuations have been so bad – they were so out of whack, the values – that as the new assessor is trying to correct them, sometimes it results in really big changes in the value.” As someone who used to live in Will County and took it up the shorts with property taxes before I left Silly-nois, I say GOOD, It’s about time Cook County started paying their fair… Read more »
Smart move. Home ownership in Cook County and Illinois is not an investment, it’s a lifelong obligation to feed pigs!
Leave chicago and cook county- you will be thankful!
Rent-to-own is a scam. Looks like she dodged a bullet.