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.
Encryption of transmissions has not improved clearance of crime cases. I used to carry a pocket scanner as well as auto scanner to avoid trouble as I traveled around Woodlawn. The lack of first hand info was a factor for leaving IL.
The current radios used by CPD are bottom of the barrel junk. The scrambling features distort the radio transmissions and many times make whatever is being said totally garbled. As usual the city has wasted millions of dollars because the contracts go to the lowest bidder (who slips the fattest envelope under the table).