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.
I don’t remember my aldercommie contacting me about this before the Council voted on it.
I despise that little deviant tyrant in the Mayor’s office. Near-0.
FACT CHECK: Lollapalooza: (1) Creates An Annual Weeks-Long Lakefront Traffic Jam (With Downtown Street Closures Before, During And After The Actual Festival); (2) Destroys Much Of Grant Park’s Landscaping — Making It Off Limits To Chicagoans For Months; (3) Creates Intolerable Noise For Downtown Lakefront Residents; (4) Sets Up An Open Air Drug Market; And (5) Turns Lakefront/Downtown Streets Into A Mass Public Toilet – And Failed Mayor Lightfoot Refuses To Allow Any Public Input On Lollapalooza’s Future – WBBM AM 780 News Radio Chicago , Crain’s Chicago Business — ON TOP OF THAT, THE CITY’S AGREEMENT FOR A LOOP… Read more »
If our kids wanted to go to Lola it would be a definite no. We’ll see how many suburban parents are not paying attention to Chicago violence by allowing their kids to attend.