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.
You won’t hear governor WIDE-LOAD bragging about that
“Jelly Belly closing North Chicago plant”
How can Pritzker close a private business like this?
Apparently we stuck a nerve with someone who loves governor five chins. We both received a red thumb down.
Oh, that’s just the Democratic/Union goons keeping an eye on Wirepoints. They can’t stand any criticism of our autocratic leadership and don’t want citizens to be informed. Don’t worry, though—eventually, the CTU will graduate students who can’t read a word, and then the problem will be resolved.
I don’t think Chicagoans realize how much candy at one time was manufactured in the city of Chicago. If they did, they would “might” realize how intentionally destructive the political class has been to manufacturing in Chicago. Chicago is no longer the City-that-Works; its a full-blown welfare state.
You are correct, Chicago has lost many candy manufacturers over the years. I remember Mars Candy my uncle worked at the plant on Oak Park Ave. My uncle brought me the seconds, Mars Bars, Three Musketeers, Snickers, and Forever Yours which
Became Milky Way. The hugh Brachs plant on Cicero
All gone along with the jobs, Curtis Candy and many more.
Don’t forget the old Cracker Jack plant in Bedford park off Cicero and 65th street.
My Grandmother worked there; she would travel from the German enclave in Marquette park area. Also Kool-Aid.
65th Street from Cicero to almost Harlem had dozens of factories. Bedford Park side of course.
Always nice to ride by and smell the cracker jack being made. Haven’t been through that area in years.
I remember the smell of chocolate permeating that part of the city in the sixties.
Take what the city did to Bloomer chocolate. That smell of freshly baked brownies permeating the Chicago air was just too environmentally unhealthy. So the Bloomer Chocolate Company after 85 years is no more.