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.
Chicago brought all of this decline onto itself. The warnings signs were there years ago and ignored.
If Chicago could tax crime, would have billions to give to CTU…
401 S. State St. recently sold for $4.2M, 6% of its price from 10 years ago. I wonder how much its tax assessment will fall, and who’s going to make up the deficit. As we know, the City of Chicago can only increase its spending.
Downtown sucks now. Nobody wants to go there anymore. it’s as simple as that. You might get stabbed, light afire, or smashed in the face with a brick by a vagrant; or run over by an illegal immigrant, or if you’re lucky, mugged, carjacked or witness a drive-by. This is what the mayor calls equity.