Bruce Rauner

Rauner fires Illinois Lottery private manager

By Hilary Gowins

09/20/2015

Increased sales were outweighed by richer payouts.

TAGS: illinois lottery

August jobs report for Illinois: Manufacturing jobs drop by 2,200 in August, down 9,800 for 2015

By Michael Lucci

09/17/2015

Illinois lost 2,200 manufacturing jobs in August and is down nearly 10,000 on the year.

TAGS: manufacturing

Illinois pays millions in pension benefits to the dead

By Austin Berg

09/14/2015

More than 1,000 dead Illinoisans received pension payments from 2010 to 2014, according to government records.

TAGS: fraud, waste

What happens when Illinois taxpayers refused to be ignored

By Jim Long

09/13/2015

All is not lost in the Land of Lincoln.

Rauner signs law shining light on government golden parachutes

By Austin Berg

09/12/2015

The new law is designed to expose severance agreements like the one given to controversial College of DuPage President Robert Breuder.

TAGS: College of DuPage, waste

Illinois Medicaid expansion enrollment at nearly double original projections

By Jonathan Ingram

09/11/2015

Illinois’ costs for the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion could be nearly $1.5 billion higher than originally expected as the state has added 633,671 able-bodied adults to the rolls.

AFSCME, Rauner reach another deal to keep talking

By Mark Fitton

09/11/2015

Both the administration and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 have agreed to stay at the table until they reach impasse.

TAGS: AFSCME: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees

The case for updating Illinois’ felony-theft laws

By Bryant Jackson-Green

09/10/2015

To make Illinois smarter on crime and save taxpayer dollars, theft laws must be kept up to date

TAGS: felony theft, restorative justice

No luck: Illinois Lottery sued for not paying lottery winners

By Hilary Gowins

09/10/2015

Illinois Lottery IOU

The failure of the General Assembly to pass a state budget prevents Illinois lottery winners from receiving their prize money.

TAGS: illinois lottery

Illinois comptroller: Unpaid bills could grow to $8.5B by year’s end

By Austin Berg

09/10/2015

IOUs continue to flow from a broken state government.

TAGS: debt, Leslie Munger, unpaid bills

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