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 think a lot of people have done that. Hard to get into a good restaurant on the weekend in DuPage unless you have a reservation.
With work from home, food delivery, and streaming entertainment, downtown Chicago has zero appeal for most people that don’t live there.
If people stop spending money it will be the last nail in the coffin for the Chitty of Chicago.
There will be no reduction in Chicago crime until the criminal justice system starts working. Kim Foxx and Tim Evans don’t give a chit about entertainment dollars. The catch and release system will continue. If the cops even bother to catch, knowing that it’s useless.
Two steps ahead of you buddy, stopped spending there after the first round of riots in May and June 2020, haven’t spent a penny since, although I occasionally drive there for work.