Press Releases

Bar and restaurant ownership down 71% during past year, thanks to COVID-19 and associated restrictions

Monthly jobs report: Illinois suffers second consecutive month of job losses

Illinois Policy experts are available to dissect why Illinois needs Speaker Madigan to step down and why Illinois must dismantle his power structure

Statement from Illinois Policy

Increasing property and sales taxes will likely offset proposed savings from the governor’s progressive tax amendment

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has not ruled out a local income tax to close city’s nearly $1.2 billion budget hole

Initial unemployment claims in Illinois spiked three times higher than the national average on a percentage basis

Jo Daviess, Pope, Hardin, Carroll and Henderson counties have the highest senior populations in the state

PRESS RELEASE from the ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE MEDIA CONTACT: Melanie Krakauer (312) 607-4977 Illinois Policy Institute: Statement on progressive tax lawsuit CHICAGO (Oct. 9, 2020) – A lawsuit challenging the misleading progressive tax ballot language, brought by the Illinois Policy Institute and Illinois retirees, continues to its next legal phase. Although a Circuit Court Judge denied an emergency…

The State of Illinois violated the “free and equal” elections clause of the Illinois Constitution by using biased ballot language to mislead voters on the progressive tax