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.
It would seem another instant way to create more housing would be to allow/ rezone/ covert all the empty small retail /commercial property’s into appartmnts. In my far nw side neighborhood those properties have been empety for decades. My neighbors own some small retail buildings w apartments above and havent been able to rent the storefronts for ages..and it aint comen back–cant compete w big box or online retail. Dont know how prop tax would work, assume city would lose if rezoned residential