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.
The writer is much too optimistic, touting all the typical Chicago talking points which every article like this has repeated for decades, Every single talking point is trumped by rampant crime and violence. Who cares that there’s great architecture when you’re lying flat on a sidewalk bleeding? The author saying that Chicago will remain an important “financial node” as long as the CME remains in the city is missing the point. The CME is really a server farm in Aurora, an electronic portal for the world. That’s why Citadel could leave and trade from anywhere. In fact, the CME could… Read more »
As I’ve been saying for years, when the pipeline of Big 10 frat boys and sorority dries up, it’s look out below!
I’m thinking that parents of coeds would rather not have their daughters move to Chicago right out of college.