The Cook County assessor may have to pay $41,000 in fines for accepting donations in excess of the limit allowed by Cook County campaign finance rules.
The office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx signed off on a $2 million property tax settlement with the property tax firm headed by Foxx campaign donor Alderman Ed Burke.
Policy failures have resulted in a steady stream of income flowing to neighboring states.
The village of Lakewood is making encouraging reforms in a county where residents pay some of the highest property taxes in the nation.
One community in northern Illinois’ McHenry County is a case study on the glacial pace of consolidation in a state with the most units of local government – and some of the highest property taxes – in the nation.
City Council gave private ‘booting’ companies the blessing to charge Chicagoans more to remove the device from vehicles.
A new ad campaign by the Badger State digs into millennials’ growing disillusion with the Land of Lincoln.
State lawmakers would be wise to re-examine the barriers to second chances and first careers throughout the state.
The $1.6 billion assembly plant will create an estimated 4,000 jobs for Alabama residents by 2021.
Illinois’ failure to keep and attract residents is driving the Land of Lincoln’s population decline.
A series of recent reports have illustrated the severity of the Land of Lincoln’s outmigration trend.
Illinois’ unfair collective bargaining laws led to a five-year contract offer on the eve of a strike vote.