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 can’t understand why Chicago thinks its mag mile is so great, it is not. I visit many cities that have shopping that makes the mag mile look like a small town bazaar. Some of those cities were in Mexico as well.
Kissing up to blm failed. Tearing down the statues was going to make it all better. It’s time for a revolution. Lori and Sophia King gave into blm this is the result.
No weed stores on Michigan Ave? But what about Equity? Is this not inequitable? What can’t BIPOC buy weed on Michigan Ave? This is awfully racist.
What difference does it make?
Bummer!
No it will not become a pot paradise, but it will become a homeless paradise and carjacking city.
So much trafficking, pot smoking, and gang banging going on in those $80 a night hotel rooms at those fancy hotels.
Michigan Ave is over.
Chicago is over!!
Debtstor…. We can’t beat them, so we should join them… or take advantage of the crumbling situation… 1) Sell ad space on shops that are still boarded up (plywood = $$$$) and 2) open a pot shop on Maple & Ash and call it Maple & Hash – .$$$$$ … We’re in the money…. (I couldn’t resist)….