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.
The ‘recapture’ law is a good one – sure seems unconstitutional. But in IL, that’s seems to be the norm. So year after year, the successful property tax challenges are simply pushed back onto to everyone else’s tax bill – Cook Co will not be denied.
Like I said before there is not one politician in Springfield or one Mayor across Illinois that has the guts or brains to want to do a damn thing, again status quo.
Here’s a list of suburbs getting the largest property tax increases. Check out the comments.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cook-county-homeowners-15-suburbs-150658040.html
Are we at the breaking point yet? This is getting absurd.
Gee, our property taxes here in SC have gone down by $25 each of the last three years. Saving $10K a year compared to living in IL.
Not to worry, the great new south suburban
Airport will make everything right as rain
Tax money will fall from the heavens like raindrops, everyone will be singin Zippadee doo da, zippadee day.
I can’t wait for the completion of the extended CTA rail line to that will take me to this wonderful place once it’s completed too!
Taxes for southern suburbs goes up, but Preckwinkle won’t spend any money in these suburbs, such as Cook county police, heath care or even cutting grass. Preckwinkle sees suburbs only as tax revenue for Chicago.
Everything is tax revenue to Taxwinkle. Remember the failed soda tax? Kim Foxx probably wishes that one went through.
Tho Cook County collects the tax, most of it goes to local school districts and municipalities. Probably better to blame Tiffany Henyard and some of the school bureaucrats than Preckwinkle.