Want to fix Illinois’ economic development agency? Put it out to pasture

By Hilary Gowins

05/04/2015

For more than a decade, Illinois has been giving select businesses many millions of dollars more in tax credits than the law allows.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, DCEO: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, EDGE: Economic Development for a Growing Economy, jobs, public private partnership

Quinn and the DCEO spent $27M on ‘Transformers’ movies, ‘Empire,’ a Funyons commercial and more

By Austin Berg

03/24/2015

Gov. Bruce Rauner ordered Cinespace Chicago Film Studios to pay back their most recent $10 million grant, but further action is necessary to stamp out cronyism in Illinois.

TAGS: Cinespace, DCEO: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity

How Illinois’ economic development agency flouts the law in plain sight

By Robert Steere

01/21/2015

The DCEO’s decision to play by its own rules deserves scrutiny not only because of its monetary cost, but because it involves a fiduciary failure symptomatic of governmental disregard for the rule of law. It exemplifies a political culture that must change if Illinois government is to turn the corner and move toward restoration and renewal.

TAGS: DCEO: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, EDGE: Economic Development for a Growing Economy

DCEO’s flagship program is a total failure

By Michael Lucci

12/28/2014

The DCEO started handing out EDGE tax credits in 2001. Nearly $1 billion later, Illinois is one of only seven states to be down jobs.

TAGS: DCEO: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, EDGE: Economic Development for a Growing Economy, jobs, tax credits

DCEO gives $25.6M to billion-dollar businesses

By Austin Berg

10/30/2014

Illinoisans don’t need bureaucrats playing venture capitalist with their hard-earned money.

TAGS: DCEO: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, jobs, no cronies

DCEO: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity

Want to fix Illinois’ economic development agency? Put it out to pasture

Quinn and the DCEO spent $27M on ‘Transformers’ movies, ‘Empire,’ a Funyons commercial and more

How Illinois’ economic development agency flouts the law in plain sight

DCEO’s flagship program is a total failure

DCEO gives $25.6M to billion-dollar businesses

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