Being a county commissioner pays a salary of $102,170 a year in 2026. Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles Mayoral Race Offers Chicago a Blueprint
June 4, 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 don’t think it really matters if commissioners show up to meetings because Toni Preckwinkle and the Cook County Democrats control all of the seats except for one lone seat held by Republican Sean M. Morrison. There’s no real debate, only perfunctory votes on Toni’s legislation that always pass. It’s a bit like the National People’s Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, where legislation is decided in advance and not open to genuine debate. Both situations create the illusion of democracy but lack actual democratic process.
$102,170 a year and all you can eat.
Lazy politician … Oops, that’s redundant.
And Ralphie Martire hyperventilates about how the cost of government is rising. Government costs allot when nobody in government works.
We raise taxes to pay these pieces of garbage to do nothing. We need doge in Illinois. Hell in 2 years maybe our debt would be gone
IF you missed the number of meeting these people did in private industry you would be fired…then again if these people were they would be the first to cry discrimination.
an $100K part time job…and you can’t show up for the meetings. Yep, its Illinois, sounds about right. The County Board is just another prOgram .