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The Center Square: High pension costs hit homeowners through property taxes, report finds
Over the last 20 years, Illinoisans have seen a 65% increase in residential property taxes, giving the state one of the nation’s highest tax burdens.
The state of Illinois has the 6th highest property taxes in the nation and that number is climbing due to the large number of underfunded pensions the state and local governments have.
Effingham Daily News: Other View: Plea to southern Illinois: Wake up and get the vaccine
Walk the halls of Springfield or drink a beer in Carbondale, and you will hear a lot of discussion about the city of Chicago, and not much of it favorable. Downstaters routinely lament the wastefulness of city government, the lousy traffic, the lack of public safety, the crowded conditions.
They have many good points to make, especially when it comes to the city’s dangers.
Daily Herald: You'll need an appointment -- but can skip the lines -- at many driver services facilities
Questions such as “do you have an appointment?”, and the occasional letdown, “all our appointments are full,” circulated Friday outside the driver services facility in Lombard.
That’s because the Illinois Secretary of State’s office this month is retooling a variety of procedures to avoid crowds and lines at DMVs caused by COVID-19 backlogs.