Making Illinois smart on crime: First steps to reduce spending, ease offender re-entry and enhance public safety

By Bryant Jackson-Green, Dianna Muldrow, Derek Cohen

08/06/2015

First steps to reduce spending, ease offender re-entry and enhance public safety

Tamales y temor: The world of Chicago’s shadow chefs

By Austin Berg

07/15/2015

An ordinance that would immediately allow thousands of food-cart street vendors the freedom to serve their communities sits before Emanuel’s City Council, and along with it the potential for explosive growth in the industry.

Reform education spending: Eliminate loopholes in General State Aid formula

By Ted Dabrowski

02/17/2015

The state should simplify and amend the General State Aid formula to end loopholes, and require each school district to fully report its true property wealth when requesting means-based state aid.

City profits from crackdown on New Year’s drink specials

By Bryant Jackson-Green

12/31/2014

The intent of the law is to prevent binge drinking and drunk driving. But it’s not clear this is the best policy to address either of these problems.

TAGS: happy hour, regulations

Unions to bankrupt Chicago pension funds

By Benjamin VanMetre

12/29/2014

A group of Chicago unions, including AFSCME Council 31 and the Chicago Teachers Union, have sued the city over a recent attempt to reform two of the city’s four pension funds.

TAGS: Chicago, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, pensions, unions

Chicago cracks down on unregulated eating

By Bryant Jackson-Green

12/26/2014

A thriving entrepreneurial culture depends on the ability to experiment and take risks without begging for permission from the government.

TAGS: Chicago, regulations, small business

SEIU lies to home-based caregivers to stymie flow of opt-outs

By Jim Long

12/22/2014

SEIU officials are telling caregivers they will lose all benefits, including health insurance and the Medicaid stipend that helps them care for their loved ones, should they opt out of paying union dues, according to training attendees.

TAGS: labor, SEIU: Service Employees International Union

Quinn’s final battle: governor calls special session for comptroller special election, minimum-wage hike

By Donovan Griffith

12/19/2014

We have yet to see the full schedule for Quinn’s special session, but one thing is for sure, the governor is gearing up for one last battle on very important issues less than a week before a change of leadership.

TAGS: Pat Quinn

Illinois Policy threatened with arrest at union-led trainings

By Paul Kersey

12/19/2014

State police have been threatening staffers from Illinois Policy with arrest because the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, doesn't want us to tell home-based caregivers about their rights.

TAGS: SEIU: Service Employees International Union

Jobs serve as a stopgap for Chicago teen violence

By Austin Berg

12/15/2014

But Chicago’s minimum-wage hike is a stopgap for jobs.

TAGS: Chicago, jobs

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Making Illinois smart on crime: First steps to reduce spending, ease offender re-entry and enhance public safety

Tamales y temor: The world of Chicago’s shadow chefs

Reform education spending: Eliminate loopholes in General State Aid formula

City profits from crackdown on New Year’s drink specials

Unions to bankrupt Chicago pension funds

Chicago cracks down on unregulated eating

SEIU lies to home-based caregivers to stymie flow of opt-outs

Quinn’s final battle: governor calls special session for comptroller special election, minimum-wage hike

Illinois Policy threatened with arrest at union-led trainings

Jobs serve as a stopgap for Chicago teen violence

4 ways to break out of Illinois’ pension trap

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