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 low to middle end department store is dead and has been for a long time. Come to think of it, the high end department store is dead too.
Orland Square Mall opened 40 years ago with a Jacques Penné, Sears, Carsons, and Marshall Fields. 3 of those 4 anchors are now gone. Miraculously, there were recently able to replace the Carsons with a Von Maur.
I’m old enough to remember when they opened another mall across the street from Orland Square. For years, the mall remained largely vacant, absent 2 baseball card/coin shops. Think it was built w/ 80’s S&L money.
https://malls.fandom.com/wiki/Orland_Park_Place
I honestly didn’t know they were still in business. Is Kmart still in business? I wouldn’t know that either.
Is anyone surprised? Does anyone care other than Penny employees?