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 casino train in Chicago has left the station. Allow video gaming citywide and the revenue would be massive. Just an example. Gilbert’s, Illinois, a small community in the northwest suburbs only has 8 locations with video gaming terminals with a total of 52 gaming machines. Get ready, 46 million $$ played in those machines and $41 million paid out. The state received $1.3 million in taxes and Gilberts, a wide spot in the road was hand $210K S their share. Can one only imagine the revenue that could be generated in Chicago, at the airports, bars, restaurants, stand alone… Read more »
If Illinois allows the video gaming everywhere there will be little point of opening at all.
With the extra taxes on sports betting many are already returning to illegal bookmakers, very simular to the serious cannabis user driving to MI (as do the black market for sales in IL)
They aren’t giving Ballys another year ,they are actually begging Ballys to build. Ballys isn’t making the money they thought it would and smart gamblers know not to throw money on a losing proposition