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.
Perhaps Lightfoot owes these boutique retailers a HUGE apology. Maybe these luxury retailers should just leave Chicago, abandon their storefronts and rely on mail-order sales to their few remaining Chicago paying-customers. Me personally, I won’t visit these stores anymore, to avoid being caught-up in a flash-mob looting episode, given now daily frequency of these events. My 60611 neighbors concur.
Shoplifting mob? Mobile riots of teens and young adults.
Smash and grab is a non-violent crime, until it isn’t.
Who will Lightfoot blame for this one — this store actually had security.