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Locusts Are Descending on Chicago
If this weekend’s socialist conference in Chicago doesn’t get conservatives and independents to their polling places in November, maybe we deserve the anarchical dystopia socialists are planning.
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QUICK HIT: Governor Gives Democrats A Labor Day Gift
It sounds like a good idea at first, but given the history of fiscal mismanagement and corruption under the Pritzker Administration, all sorts of things could go wrong under Senate Bill 3086, which will allow State Treasurer Michel Frerichs to invest money into the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (which currently has assets exceeding $1 billion).
Frerichs is looking to invest an INITIAL $10 million in taxpayer money this year alone in construction projects that have an affordable or workforce housing element.
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QUICK HITS: SHELVED.
On August 31, U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless entered an injunction blocking Illinois state officials from enforcing their new Prescription Drug Affordability Act (PDAA). She found that the state law almost certainly conflicts with the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
When signing the measure into law, Gov. JB Pritzker said the state could use PDAA to address a “health care system infected by profit-seeking middlemen and predatory actors looking to make an extra dime at the expense of Illinois patients.”
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QUICK HIT: Public Union Scam
Public Union Scam
A recent report filed with the U.S. Labor Department has revealed that the labor union SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Healthcare is straight up lying about its operations.
- Thousands of workers represented by SEIU Healthcare have rejected union membership.
- Less than 20% of SEIU Healthcare’s spending is on representing workers.
- SEIU Healthcare spends millions on politics.
- Dozens of SEIU Healthcare’s leaders and employees rake in over $100,000 a year — in stark contrast to the modest wages of its members.
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QUICK HIT: More Dirty Dealings In Illinois
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and other federal officials recently announced an emergency removal of 110 commercial driver’s license schools associated with over 5,000 drivers who failed English language proficiency tests. They have also ordered the shutdown of 150 schools that don’t have licensed instructors and adequate space to allow students to get behind the wheel and actually DRIVE.
There is no shortage of bad actors involved in this dangerous enterprise that spans across 23 states.
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The Ridiculous “Best of CPS High School List”
This blog isn’t just another analysis about school performance in Chicago. It’s a warning for people to read past the headlines and not just skim the content of any story coming from the media, especially when the article claims to be a “Best Of” ranking.
Often, stories that are titled “Best Of” capture people’s attention and entice readers to open up the article, wanting to know what ranks at the top.
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QUICK HIT: DOUBLESPEAK
Tripping all over himself, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is claiming that he wants mail-in voting for Illinois, but at the same time he wants the United States Postal Service (USPS) to stay out of it.
How is that supposed to work, Mr. Raoul?
As part of a coalition of 25 states (you can probably guess which ones), he is arguing in a lawsuit that the USPS is violating the Constitution,
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QUICK HIT: Illinois Democrats Will Always Look For New Ways To Cheat
This week, the United States Supreme Court temporarily lifted a lower court stay of President Trump’s executive order limiting access to mail ballots nationwide, and Governor Pritzker is already being overly dramatic about it. Calling the decision ‘deeply troubling’, he came out and said this:
“We are weeks away from voting in the midterms and the President is trying to put fear in Americans about the security of our elections, rewrite the rules,
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QUICK HIT: A Sliver Of Hope For Respecting Life
Last week, a federal court issued an order to the state of Illinois that will temporarily shield some medical professionals from the heinous assisted suicide law that is set to take effect in early September.
Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1950 into law in December 2025. It allows terminally ill patients the option to seek medication to end their lives, but it does not require physicians, health care providers or pharmacists to provide end-of-life medication.
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QUICK HIT: It’s Not Just Chicago Democrats
Governor Pritzker and his Supermajority Party are notorious for mismanaging money, especially in Chicago. Public pension funds in particular are decimating the state’s fiscal stability.
However, it’s not just Chicago and Springfield that are the problem. Most Illinois towns and cities maintain their own separate public pensions for police and fire. They are commonly referred to as ‘downstate’ pensions. The following Wirepoints article illustrates how local Illinois pension funds are alarmingly weak as well.