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.
Just go to CWBCHICAGO.COM and read the almost daily articles about violent criminals arrested for more violent crimes while in electronic monitoring or no bail/low bail. Its gonna get worse because Pritzger is going to sign new reform bill on policing that is opposed by 100 of the states attorneys out of 102 total counties. Cook/County/Chicago wants it, Pritzger will obey his masters.
Shame on Loyola for hiding behind percentages to arrive at the politically correct conclusion in their report. In real life, we live with absolute numbers of crimes, not percentages. Certainly the people who wrote the report know that.