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Illinois Policy Institute: Pension bill does not solve city pension crisis and likely means higher property taxes for Chicagoans Today, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law a pension bill for the city of Chicago. Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman issued the following statement today regarding the signing of this bill: “The Chicago pension...
CHICAGO (WLS) –Governor Pat Quinn faces a deadline Monday to sign legislation overhauling two Chicago pension systems that hinge on a property tax increase. Mayor Rahm Emanuel hopes Governor Quinn will sign the bill. The governor said last week he was still reviewing it and hadn’t made up his mind. “How do you spell review?”...
Ted Dabrowski, Vice President of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, joined the Jim Bohannon Show to discuss the minimum wage
New study finds many suburban public schools are not as strong as parents think CHICAGO (June 3, 2014) — New research to be released at an event hosted Wednesday by the Illinois Policy Institute and Pacific Research Institute finds that many suburban Illinois schools that are considered strong are actually underperforming. The presentation will show that schools in suburban towns such as Plainfield, Waukegan, Downers Grove,...
John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, joins Melissa Francis on Fox Business Money to talk about the minimum wage. Find more here.
Naomi Lopez Bauman, Director of Health Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, joins Mike Rosen on 850 KOA radio to talk about the true cost of Obamacare as compared to enrollment. Find more here.
This story was written by Mike Fitzgerald and featured in the Belleville News Democrat on June 1, 2014. James Harper, 60, retired as an Air Force colonel in 2006, choosing to live in O’Fallon. Harper does not regret his decision to retire in the metro-east, he said. “We’re doing fine here,” said Harper, who spent...
John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, joined WROK-AM in Rockford to talk about the budget discussions in Springfield and the push to increase taxes in Illinois again.