Veterans courts provide Illinois a more effective way to address offenders who have served in the military, allowing the state to rely less on incarceration
While thousands of Chicago-area Ford employees rejoice over news of long-term stability, many more Illinois manufacturing workers face joblessness.
Gov. Bruce Rauner announced plans to restrict tax breaks for companies for retaining existing employees – putting an end to excessive tax credits that have cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Without real reforms, low investment yearly returns of 4 to 6 percent over the next 28 years could cost Illinois taxpayers anywhere from $100 billion to $200 billion above what they’re already expected to pay in contributions.
State politicians will decide the fate of Chicago’s demand for more money, but a budget vote isn’t likely before January 2016.
Besides what appears to be retaliation against a citizen for exercising his First Amendment rights, the incident reveals the absurdity of Chicago’s ban on airport pickups for popular services such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar.
The former governor’s landmark pension bill paved the way for two decades of go-along-to-get-along pension politics, turning Illinois' pension debt into the nation's largest retirement crisis.
Illinois has no more jobs in 2015 than it had in 1998.
SEIU spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on things clearly unrelated to the representation of union members.
History repeating.
Illinois taxpayers are forced – by law – to pay for local-government pensions above all else.
Nonprofit organizations that receive taxpayer money advocate for higher taxes on the taxpayers who fund their operations and salaries.
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.
State jobs data shows Illinois had a net gain of 1,900 payroll jobs in July, driven by an increase in government employment.