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.
If I were in the NS boardroom, I would have already begun agitating for massive land purchases in Indiana. Close Englewood Yard and move all that economic activity to Gary, South Bend, or Elkhart; or simply move to a newly built greenfield site just as UP did south of Joliet.
My family lived among the railroads for over 80 years. I don’t recall too much whining about it, except when the gates at Burnham Avenue would seem to be stuck in the active position.