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.
Teachers are getting makeup days off because they are in charge and can give themselves any benefit they want
There’s little accounting on days off when my wife was a teacher she called friends to sub, the day off was totally off the time sheet books.
Saw this coming a mile away. Teachers begged for make-up days. We all knew the quality of teaching on those make-up days would not be worth the cost, even if they did show up. Yet Lightfoot succumbed anyway.
Who’s gonna be the first person to FOIA the CPS teacher attendance numbers for the 1st day after the strike? It was a Friday.