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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Well who doesn’t love the Newness vibe in FM, love all the new buildings and restaurants, very cool industrial chic architecture – although to me just seems Forced and unsustainable, buildings and money filling in like Tetris. ‘Having said that’ what do I know. I heard someone comment on NFTs and crypto, ‘my opinion doesn’t matter, a ton of people buy for reasons that buck traditional thinking, they just do’ so same with Fulton, we’ll see. The energy and marketing may shift North to Lincoln Yards. Please I just hope the mega development by Soldier Field falls through, that would… Read more »
Fulton Market is way overhyped and will crash as spectacularly as it rose.
If the corporate market is not expanding, then all Fulton Market is doing is poaching tenants from other Loop buildings and shifting the business district further west without expanding it.
I understand West Loop Gate building up with proximity to Ogilvie and Union, but Fulton Market forces those same commuters to hike across the expressway. Unless Metra builds a train station at Ogden/Ashland, I can’t see their current level of expansion continuing.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/3/14/22971472/lasalle-street-thompson-center-redevelopment-reuse
LaSalle St. is 20% vacant. Fulton market is totally poaching tenants. The loop has a reputation of being too expensive.
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