SB2494 has been endorsed by newspapers across the state. Learn the facts about SB2494 below Does your legislator support SB2494? Find out more here. Senate Bill 2494 creates a pilot program to give parents in Chicago’s lowest-performing and most severely overcrowded schools educational options. Each family enrolled in one of these schools will be offered a school...
Senate Bill 2494 creates a pilot program to give parents in Chicago
The answer isn't always a tax hike...
Following up on a blog from yesterday, we found 54 more interns, include 5 who received more than $40,000 in 2008.
Almost half the interns with the State of Illinois made over $10,000 in 2008.
Collin Hitt gives at update on the status of SB 2494, the bill that would give vouchers to students in struggling schools in Chicago.
by Mark Cavers In 2008, the State of Illinois employed 38 individuals to help with the production and placement of signs across the Illinois highway system. These employees, ranging from sign makers, to hangers to supervisors, were paid a combined total of $1,822,653.47 in wages. The highest paid employee, a supervisor in a sign shop,...
In 2008, social workers in all of Illinois made 17% less, on average, than social workers employed by the State of Illinois.
John Tillman discusses the passage of the Sunshine Act, an important bill that will allow citizens to hold government accountable.
The Sunshine Commission Act unanimously passed out of the Senate yesterday and is now waiting to be signed into law by Governor Quinn. The Commission
The Wall Street Journal again cites the Institute's work on SB 2494.
51K per hour total to 1,000 state employees
The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and the Illinois Arts Council gave the Independent Feature Project of Chicago $22,760 in fiscal year 2009.
The media has been uncovering some interesting spending from Cook County