Escaping Illinois Doesn't Mean You've Escaped J.B. Pritzker

Escaping Illinois Doesn't Mean You've Escaped J.B. Pritzker

April 23, 2025 By John Kass When we were young raising our family, pinching pennies to pay the mortgage and take care of the children, we'd see news stories about rising violent crime in my hometown of Chicago. We'd breathe a sigh of relief, thankful that we were no longer in the street gang neighborhoods where murders were commonplace. Yeah, ...

John Kass: Escaping Illinois Doesn’t Mean You’ve Escaped Pritzker

"'We couldn’t have planned it this way,' write Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner of wirepoints.org. 'But our seven most-read stories in 2024 each captured a different facet of what’s wrong with Illinois. Failing schools. Murders. Closing businesses. A bloated, overpaid government sector. Election interference. Population-loss denial. And Chicago’s twisted equity priorities.'"

Escaping Illinois Doesn’t Mean You’ve Escaped Pritzker

April 23, 2025 By John Kass When we were young raising our family, pinching pennies to pay the mortgage and take care of the children, we’d see news stories about rising violent crime in my hometown of Chicago. We’d breathe a sigh of relief, thankful that we were no longer in the street gang neighborhoods where murders were commonplace. Yeah, we paid high property taxes in the suburbs—too high because the Chicago Teachers Union dictated the stat…