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.
According to the Illinois Constitution any county with a population of 200K and over are limited to classify properties at no more than 2.5 times the lower class. In other words a business can pay 2.5 times the tax that a residential property does of equal value. Here in Winnebago county all properties are valued at the same class but different rates which are set by local municipalities. Within Rockford’s city limits are pockets of county which has a lower tax rate of 11.6802% on 1/3rd value. The city tax rate is 14.27% so the numbers are skewed for the… Read more »