Warning shots fired, Chicago pays $200M penalty for bad reputation in bond issue

By Ted Dabrowski

05/29/2015

The most recent round of city borrowing is a sign of things to come.

Ruling against ObamaCare IRS subsidies would save Illinoisans billions in penalty costs

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

12/02/2014

There is a silver lining should the Supreme Court rule against the ACA: Illinoisans would no longer be subject to an estimated $6.5 billion in IRS penalties.

TAGS: IRS: Internal Revenue Service, penalty, subsidies

The cost of bad behavior: Illinois penalty borrowing rate

By John Klingner

03/31/2013

The price of Illinois bad behavior continues to go up.

TAGS: borrowing, credit rating, debt, penalty

Pensions make Illinois property taxes among nation’s most painful

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Michael Serrano

Policy lessons from Illinois’ exodus of people and money

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