A new property tax hike worth as much as $148 million is set to hit Chicagoans as part of the latest school funding proposal. That’s on top of the record-breaking property tax hikes Mayor Rahm Emanuel approved in 2015 and a litany of other city and county taxes and fees.

Median pay for city workers was nearly $93,000 in 2016.

Since 2006, Chicago Public Schools has been deprived of $2.5 billion in property tax revenue that has been diverted to Chicago TIF districts.

Substantive ordinances make up less than 2 percent of all legislation considered by the current City Council over the past two years.

Retailers will now have to either program cash registers not to tax purchases made with food stamps, or implement a “manual override.”

House Bill 4083 is the second bill in the Illinois General Assembly to propose getting rid of Cook County’s unpopular soda tax.

House Bill 4082 would ban Illinois home rule counties from levying taxes on sweetened drinks by volume sold.