Editorial: Public disservice announcement — beginning Saturday, Chicagoans will pay $10.50 on every $100 in retail purchases

Illinois’ transit bailout is the gift that keeps on giving — higher taxes and fees, that is.

When the state pushed through a massive legislative package last year worth $1.5 billion annually to rescue our mismanaged, broke transit systems, the full weight taxpayers would be expected to shoulder was hard to see.

Saturday, it’s coming into focus.

On Aug. 1, the sales tax in Chicago is going up to 10.5% ...