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 ice agents and national guard are going in to agitate people and commiting violence against them in order to justify why they are there to yank people off of the streets. Trump is stirring up a ruckus to cause our nation to want to fight the administration!
ICE Agents In Chicago Area Who Aren’t Undercover Must Wear Badges Or IDs, Federal Judge Rules
“It would be a cold day in hell before I would consent to an uninvited, unilateral intervention into one of my cities” – Tom Ridge – Former Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
I wish I was making this up, but the esteemed Judge Perry is a 2003 graduate of ……. wait for it…….. the Northwestern University PRITZKER School of Law! Too funny! Also really funny that girl boss Judge Perry believes that DHS’s perception of events is “simply unreliable”. Did it ever occur to the good Judge to maybe get in her car and take a ride to Broadview and see what’s going on? Or is it too déclassé for a Northwestern graduate to venture into a working class neighborhood with all those icky people she’s heard about but never talked to?… Read more »
Judge Perry, thank you for the downvote!
The article starts with the question of believing local law enforcement, who say they have the situation under control? or Trump?
Did she not see the lawsuit from the media against DHS on the excessive force? How could that be possible if the local law enforcment has it under control>
Because of course they did. This leftist tyranny of the judiciary has been slapped down how many times now? Overturn in 3…2…
Perry was a Kim Foxx stooge, appointed as a DEI GirlBoss hire by Biden. Hopefully the 7th Circuit or SCOTUS will slap this nonsense down.
When federal agents are being assaulted with cars — and Chicago police are on the side of the attackers — the only answer for law and order is the Guard.
True. I don’t know the proper legal outcome on appeal, but I am pretty sure April Perry’s opinion will not carry much weight.
No concern by this ‘judge’ in her kangaroo court for international terrorists putting bounties on Federal Law enforment officers. We’ll see how far her freak show goes.
Just another gift from Biden that we will be paying for in the foreseeable future. Let her take a walk downtown tonight and see if that changes her opinion. You would have to live under a rock to think Chicago is safe.
I think it’s fine, and I work on the southwest side and drive up Pulaski every day. No problems. Lived in and by Chicago for over 30 years now. Helps that I get my news from multiple sources, and not just hopelessly partisan ones.
Go to U of Chicago hospital. Walk on Adams, Michigan or State after dark. People are getting randomly slugged walking from the trains (saw this happen). You are driving in the morning with rush hour with your car locked. Get informed so you aren’t a statistic.
He gives his whole game away when he says he lives on the southwest side.
Why did he choose the southwest side and not the west side off the Eisenhower?
He obviously could have bought a cheaper house on the west side.
Why didn’t he buy a cheaper house in Austin to save himself some money?
Further, if he’s safe in his car driving up Pulaski, wouldn’t he also be safe driving in his car in Austin if he lived there?
I live in the city, a short walk from the loop. and I work in the loop. My wife regularly walks our dog on Michigan Ave after dark. Your portrayal of Chicago suggests you live in the suburbs and don’t visit Chicago too often. This is not to say Chicago is not w/o it’s problems (it has many, as typically well-covered here), but your opinion will be more valuable if you gather accurate data.
Yup, some here in the echo chamber are voting down facts.
Accurate data? Aren’t you the guy who posted a Texas for profit business group claiming it was the SBA??!!
Do you know what projection is?
Billionaire Ken Griffin says Citadel’s Chicago exodus was ‘not hard,’ cites crime, taxes
I guess Ken Griffin is wrong too.
I lived just outside the city for 60 years and commuted to and from the Loop via the Blue and Green lines for 25+ years. Riding the CTA gives you a much different perspective than riding in your personal vehicle. My job is remote these days, so I no longer have to take public transportation for which I’m thankful.
Riding the CTA became noticeably less safe around the time Daley 2.0 stepped down and funding really dried up and got progressively worse as time passed. There’s a lot of crime on the CTA…
The funding dried up? The CTA spends more now than at any time in its history. All while ridership peaked in 2012 and declined from there ever since.
CTA funding didn’t dry up, but city finances in general got tighter due to a number of factors and police presence noticeably thinned out over time.
Immediately post 9/11 there was a strong and visible police presence on CTA trains and stops along with private K9 units. As time passed, those resources dried up, and visible police presence became much, much less frequent and/or visible. One felt much safer riding public transportation circa 2003 than post 2010. Things changed a lot in that time.