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 Sun-Times is spreading lies. The Illinois real estate tax SALE system is NOT like the one utilized in Minnesota which the SCOTUS ruled unconstitutional. In fact the only common thread between the landmark Minnesota case and the story of Velma Lewis featured by the Sun-Times is that they both involved black women who decided to stop paying their real estate taxes. The real story is that Cook County blacks are grossly delinquent paying real estate taxes. THE MAP INCLUDED IN THE STORY TELLS THE TALE. Putting aside for the moment that real estate taxes tax unrealized gains and amounts… Read more »
This needs to change in Illinois, and quickly. Feel so bad for this poor woman. 😢
This doesn’t include, as a little bird told me, all of the homeowners who aren’t paying property taxes at all and remaining in their homes, as they should, as a result of said circumstances. Cook County is picking-and-choosing who pays property taxes. CC is in a Communist death spiral that no one wants to talk about.