The failure of the General Assembly to pass a state budget prevents Illinois lottery winners from receiving their prize money.
IOUs continue to flow from a broken state government.
Poorly written workers’ compensation laws cost Illinois government hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls for property-tax hikes, garbage-collection fees and ridesharing surcharges as a stop-gap measure to plug the city’s $750 million budget hole.
Gov. Bruce Rauner’s signature authorizing Belleville Township to dissolve highlights a flawed process that prevents consolidation in a state that desperately needs it.
Nonprofit organizations that receive taxpayer money advocate for higher taxes on the taxpayers who fund their operations and salaries.
A Springfield budget stalemate comes with embarrassing consequences for Illinois government.
The state is now nearly 60 days into its fiscal year with the only significant portion of its budget approved being for primary and secondary education.
High tariffs in the U.S. raise the price of sugar, driving food manufacturers such as Mondelez International out of the country.
The bipartisan pass-through spending law will provide services to the state’s most vulnerable.
New Tax Foundation study reveals that Illinoisans pay a second mortgage in property taxes.
Encouraging the streamlining of government services and more efficient use of taxpayer dollars.
City leaders are focused on the wrong kind of belt tightening.
Multiple layers of taxation make gas sold in Chicago more expensive than in other cities across the Midwest.