Rauner, business and labor agree on unemployment insurance changes

By Mark Fitton

11/10/2015

Changes to Illinois unemployment insurance law will strengthen deterrents against fraud, abuse and negligence; eliminate a $470 million tax increase and $300 million benefit reduction.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, unemployment

Fixing Illinois’ criminal-justice system means embracing sentencing reform, removing barriers to work

By Bryant Jackson-Green

11/05/2015

Alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders

TAGS: adult redeploy, prison reform, recidivism

Where things stand: No Illinois budget likely until 2016

By Heather Weiner

10/31/2015

State politicians will decide the fate of Chicago’s demand for more money, but a budget vote isn’t likely before January 2016.

TAGS: budget

Front lines of a broken state

By Austin Berg

10/30/2015

What happens to a family that can’t afford to leave Illinois?

TAGS: jobs, poverty, unemployment

Illinois’ 17-year jobs depression

By Michael Lucci

10/27/2015

Illinois has no more jobs in 2015 than it had in 1998.

TAGS: employment

Illinois’ September 2015 jobs report: Businesses lay off thousands of blue-collar workers

By Michael Lucci

10/20/2015

Illinois continues to shed jobs and underperform economically compared to its Midwestern neighbors, according to new federal and state reports.

TAGS: BLS: Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs, labor force participation rate, manufacturing, property taxes, unemployment, workers compensation

Illinois needs term limits

By Jim Long

10/18/2015

Illinois should adopt term limits for its elected officials to diminish the unchecked power of career politicians such as House Speaker Mike Madigan.

TAGS: Mike Madigan, term limits

Illinois’ budget crunch: No cash for pensions

By Ted Dabrowski

10/15/2015

Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger announced the state will delay a $560 million pension payment as the state’s government-pension-driven fiscal crisis worsens.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, Illinois Supreme Court, Leslie Munger, pensions

Win more than $600 in the Illinois Lottery? You get an IOU

By Hilary Gowins

10/14/2015

The state budget impasse is having increasingly embarrassing consequences.

TAGS: budget, illinois lottery

Illinois state government takes in more tax dollars per person than every neighboring state

By Austin Berg

10/13/2015

The low-tax Land of Lincoln is a myth.

TAGS: income tax, property taxes, sales tax, taxes

Bruce Rauner

Rauner, business and labor agree on unemployment insurance changes

Fixing Illinois’ criminal-justice system means embracing sentencing reform, removing barriers to work

Where things stand: No Illinois budget likely until 2016

Front lines of a broken state

Illinois’ 17-year jobs depression

Illinois’ September 2015 jobs report: Businesses lay off thousands of blue-collar workers

Illinois needs term limits

Illinois’ budget crunch: No cash for pensions

Win more than $600 in the Illinois Lottery? You get an IOU

Illinois state government takes in more tax dollars per person than every neighboring state

Chicago Forward 2026: A pro-growth plan to end city budget deficits

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Diana Graham

Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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