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Crain's Chicago Business: Development incentive or corporate land grab? It depends.
The measure was the Pacific Railway Act of 1862, the first in a series of bills that incentivized railroads to lay tracks through the West and connect the nation from coast to coast by offering them a huge enticement: free government-owned land, 6,400 acres of it for every new mile of track.
Champaign News-Gazette: Great politics, bad policy
Illinois’ sales tax is already too narrow, and now legislators are inventing ways to have it apply to fewer items and to bringin less money.
While Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his allies are trying to find ways to bring more revenue into this state — a progressive income tax, a plastic bag tax, a higher tobacco tax — some legislators are coming up with ways to reduce revenue. So far, no one has shown the guts to stand in the way.
Sen. Omar Aquino, a Chicago Democrat, says that it’s not fair that the state levies a 6.25 percent sales tax on items such as incontinence products, condoms, diapers and baby wipes.
State Journal-Register: Stormy’s two-minute Capitol trip
That STORMY DANIELS visit to the Illinois Capitol lasted just over two minutes, the amount of time it took her to read a statement critical of the state adult entertainment tax.
She never made it into the building where chairs and a podium were set up in the rotunda because the secretary of state’s office was told she would be doing some sort of event along the lines of a news conference.
Decatur Herald & Review: Decatur schools' buildings plan begins with middle and alternative programs
When the Decatur School District’s wide-ranging facility plans kick off later this year, the Carr family will have two children feeling the changes.
Kenraylee, a seventh-grader, will be among the Thomas Jefferson Middle School students who transfer to Stephen Decatur Middle School when the two merge in August. She and the other students will be sorted into one of three “academies” based on their interests, ensuring a smaller-school feel while allowing the district to offer more elective options.