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.
Chicago Park District has a $.5 BILLION annual budget, per Trib article today, and not much to show for it. Park District has always been a “poster child” for what ails Chicago. Park District was once domicile of army of “ghost-worker” patronage-hire employees, clocking in, clocking out, with little to no work done, day to day. Now it’s a little better, thanks to Claypool’s “housecleaning” in mid 1990s, but still a huge cost-burden to Chicago taxpayers with little tangible benefit beyond the weedy grass being mowed sometimes during summer months, and a summer daycare “camp” program run by any army… Read more »