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.
City officials in Chicago and across the state are crushing a pillar of the culinary community. But food trucks are fighting back.
A new ordinance would ban all cars with autonomous technology from Chicago, preventing Uber from expanding the fleet of self-driving vehicles it recently introduced in Pittsburgh.
Limiting how much units of government can raise taxes could provide much-needed relief for overtaxed Illinoisans.
On Sept. 2, a state administrative law judge issued a 400-page recommendation regarding the status of contract negotiations between Illinois and the state’s largest government-worker union. Three important things to know about the decision include: the state and AFSCME are in uncharted territory in their negotiation-related proceedings, the judge found the parties have reached impasse on 5 of 12 contested issues and the judge questioned AFSCME’s testimony and behavior during negotiations.
One in every 1,100 homes in Illinois is in bank-owned foreclosure.
New law reduces the rate for which Illinois’ adult and juvenile corrections facilities can contract for inmate telephone service.
Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s current tax-and-spend policies and protection of special interests stand in contrast to the speaker’s past statements declaring the need for economic growth and opportunity.
“When I was a kid this is what I used to make with my grandmother. She would always make two batches of tamales: one batch [to] sell and one batch for family. For family there would be a lot more meat, a lot more flavor, a lot more lard. There would be nothing from a...
Enjoy Life Foods relocates manufacturing and distribution facility from Chicago suburbs to Indiana.
Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a bill allowing ex-offenders with certain drug convictions to apply for jobs with Illinois park districts within seven years of completing a prison sentence or probation.