Where you can and can’t buy recreational marijuana in Illinois

11/15/2019

Many Illinois municipalities have voted to ban or restrict marijuana sales when it becomes legal for sale. Here’s a list of where pot will, won’t and might be legally bought.

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Pritzker ‘fair tax’ could cost Lombard families nearly $900

By Austin Berg

02/14/2019

Gov. J.B. Pritzker claims his progressive income tax hike will only affect the rich. But Illinoisans making as little as $26,100 would see an income tax hike under rates Pritzker cited in his budget address.

TAGS: income tax, JB Pritzker, Lombard, progressive income tax, taxes

Taxpayer-funded Lombard hotel filing for bankruptcy

08/04/2017

A decade-old, 18-story, taxpayer-funded hotel in the village of Lombard is headed for bankruptcy, proving to be a misguided investment of taxpayer dollars.

TAGS: cronyism, Lombard, Lombard Public Facilities Corp, municipal government

Lombard school district pays more than $400,000 to dismiss 2 administrators

05/26/2017

A DuPage County school district is severing ties with two administrators before their contracts expire, and it’s going to cost taxpayers.

TAGS: DuPage County, education, Lombard, property taxes

A city charter could bring order to Chicago’s dysfunction. How can it get one?

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Ricky Hamilton

Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students