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.
40 years too late.
A colossal waste of money.
Most people don’t even know what an interurban is. They were a cheap outgrowth of the streetcar lines that every self-respecting hamlet seemed to run. They ran these ‘downtown’ streetcar lines between towns, usually on the side of then-primitive roads. Some outgrew their low-cost side-road dirt track beginnings and became much more. For you kids out there, did you know that you once upon a time could board a train on the Loop’s Adams & Wabash elevated station and step off that same train 90 minutes later in downtown Milwaukee with 38 trains daily between those points to choose from?… Read more »
Wow, thanks for the info! You really lived up to your handle!
The good old times when people would hum,
” On the old Milwaukee Road”.
Thank you for the great post!!!