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.
This is nonsense. Chicago doesn’t need more housing – it has plenty of housing, just not in the areas where people want to live. And the wrong kind of housing. Putting coach houses and granny flats on small single family lots isn’t going solve the housing problem for families with children who need more space. The problem is that the places with lots of affordable housing – the west sides and south sides – are filled with lots of vacant and underused housing, but the neighborhoods are dangerous due to the inhabitants. Englewood used to have 100,000 people at its… Read more »