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This article was written by Hilary Gowins Yelvington and featured in Crain’s Chicago Business on August 5, 2015. Chicago leaders are wringing more revenue out of taxpayers who use cellphones, watch Netflix, own property and buy locally via increased taxes and surcharges in a desperate attempt to plug an expected billion-dollar budget deficit. But there’s...
Event to discuss Illinois’ economy, public education system
This article was written by Neal Asbury and featured in NewsMax on July 30, 2015. Before this year, nobody would have mentioned Greece, Puerto Rico and Illinois in the same breath. At one time they had little in common. Now they are linked by failed economies. The modern Greek state, which was established in 1830...
This article was written by Lindsey Hess and featured on Fox Illinois on July 25, 2015 A major blow was dealt to central Illinois manufacturing on Friday. Mitsubishi Motors says it plans to stop production at its plant in Normal. The company’s spokesman said Friday the Japanese automaker reviewed its global supply chain, and decided...