Chicagoans know new revenues won’t be used to pay for better roads, classrooms or public safety – these tax hikes won’t even fix what’s ailing the city’s bottom line.

TAGS: Chicago, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, ecigs, fees, Lyft, outmigration, property taxes, Rahm Emanuel, rideshare, Uber

Chicago: 7th most expensive city in the world

By Amy Korte

09/18/2015

Driven by a costly tax burden, Chicago’s high cost of goods and services lands the Windy City in the top 10 for the most expensive 71 cities across the world, according to a new survey by UBS.

TAGS: Chicago, sales tax

Chicago a step closer to lifting ban on food carts

By Hilary Gowins

09/16/2015

Today, the Chicago Committee on License and Consumer Protection voted in favor of an ordinance that would legalize food carts in the city. Now the ordinance moves to the full City Council, which will meet on Sept. 24 for a vote. Chicago is one of the only major U.S. cities that bans food carts; these...

TAGS: Chicago, food carts, street vending

Morton Salt to close Elston Avenue facility in Chicago

By Amy Korte

09/16/2015

Morton Salt will stop operations in October at its warehousing and packaging facility on Elston Avenue in Chicago.

TAGS: Chicago, jobs, manufacturing, Morton Salt, property taxes, workers compensation

Why Chicago’s ‘Netflix tax’ is illegal

By Jeffrey Schwab

09/11/2015

Chicago’s 9 percent “Netflix tax” is illegal, and the Liberty Justice Center has sued the city to stop collecting it.

TAGS: Chicago, cloud tax, Hulu, Netflix, Rahm Emanuel, Spotify

Four factors that created the CPS pension crisis

By Ted Dabrowski

09/08/2015

How Illinois politicians turned what was meant to provide government workers with retirement security into a political slush fund.

TAGS: Chicago, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel

Rahm calls for the largest property tax hike in modern Chicago history

By Ted Dabrowski

09/03/2015

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls for property-tax hikes, garbage-collection fees and ridesharing surcharges as a stop-gap measure to plug the city’s $750 million budget hole.

TAGS: Chicago, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, fees, Rahm Emanuel

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Chicago aldermen vote to overturn city’s ban on food carts

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Rahm’s budget plan phases in $2.5 billion in new taxes and fees over 4 years

Rahm calls for largest property tax hike in modern Chicago history

Chicago: 7th most expensive city in the world

Chicago a step closer to lifting ban on food carts

Morton Salt to close Elston Avenue facility in Chicago

Why Chicago’s ‘Netflix tax’ is illegal

Four factors that created the CPS pension crisis

Rahm calls for the largest property tax hike in modern Chicago history

4 ways to break out of Illinois’ pension trap

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