Policy reforms in Indiana have led to significant jobs growth, but lawmakers in the Land of Lincoln haven’t taken note.
Research shows Hardin, Macon and Marion Counties lead the state in prison admissions per 10,000 residents.
Pete Leonard has employed 35 ex-offenders since 2009 at Second Chance Coffee Company in Wheaton.
Illinois law gives financial incentives to many injured workers to stay off the job and to doctors to prescribe more medications to workers’ compensation patients.
The August BLS jobs report shows Illinois is down 8,000 manufacturing jobs on the year, giving the state the worst manufacturing job losses in the region, and a summer workforce contraction totaling 100,000 people.
Some steps have been taken to dissolve unnecessary units of governments, but taxpayers need an easier path to eliminate wasteful governmental bodies.
Years of job-killing policies in Illinois have pushed residents out of the state, while nearby Michigan has taken an alternate, pro-growth approach to turn it around.
The outgoing CSU president’s exorbitant severance package highlights the need to rein in Illinois universities’ high administrative costs.
Illinois stands out in the industrial Midwest for its skewed government-to-manufacturing-jobs ratio.
AFSCME wants the state to hike taxes on Illinois residents to fund the union’s demands for salary and benefit increases.
A majority of Illinois voters surveyed in a recent poll back record sealing for nonviolent offenders. Here’s how policymakers should make this happen.
So far, only two food carts have been licensed to sell tamales in Chicago.
August IDES report shows 22,000 people dropped out of the workforce, and 4,400 manufacturing jobs were lost.