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.
My goodness, boomers made some awful decisions. I moved to Chicago for college in the 90’s and the city was already booming then and hasn’t stopped. North/Damen/Milwaukee on the blue line was up and coming and hip and every few months another block north of Addison turned for the better. Anyone remember the urban sports apparel store under the Sheridan red line stop? It was gone by 1996 and by ’00 yuppie residents were walking to cubs games in a neighborhood that a few years before was unsafe at night. I knew of younger people who were purchasing almost million… Read more »