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Willie Wilson: Chicago taxpayers deserve transparency on migrant spending

A famous adage attributed to Winston Churchill and even a Chicago mayor is: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Democrats, Republicans and...

21.09.2023 5

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Willie Wilson: High taxes and business surcharges are hurting Illinois residents

One of the hardest things to understand is why elected officials continue to raise taxes. If elected leaders don’t make the tough economic and...

24.08.2023 10

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Willie Wilson: Allowing non-U.S. citizens to become police officers will not improve policing in Illinois

On a Friday last month, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law HB 3751, a bill that allows non-U.S. citizens to become police officers in Illinois...

10.08.2023 50

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Willie Wilson: Brandon Johnson should recuse himself from CTU contract negotiations

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of columns from Chicago business owner and former mayoral candidate Willie Wilson. Wilson will focus on...

04.05.2023 10

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Willie Wilson: Illinois voters deserve the power to recall elected officials

It was Lord John Dalberg-Acton, a historian, who famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” How do we keep...

19.04.2023 4

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Willie Wilson: Black leaders are shameful to inject race into the mayoral runoff

As the son of a sharecropper from the Jim Crow South, I know something about race and unfair treatment. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his “I...

13.03.2023 2

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