Number One!

And again, not for anything good:

• Chicago’s 10.25% combined sales tax currently ranks second among major cities, behind only Seattle’s 10.35%, but a 0.25-point hike for transit will make them the highest in America.

  The new Regional Transportation Authority funding bill, which increases the Chicago metro area sales tax by 0.25 percentage points, has passed both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly and now sits on Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk. Once signed, it will give Chicago the highest sales-tax rate of any major city in the nation at 10.5%.

And what do Chicagoans get for these massive taxes?

• failing schools
• rising property crime
• declining services
• less police coverage
• increasing wait times for ambulances
• fleeing businesses

And Conehead.