New year, outta here: Another Illinois manufacturer seeks refuge in Indiana

By Austin Berg

01/08/2016

Enjoy Life Foods plans to move its lone Illinois manufacturing facility and up to 150 jobs to southern Indiana this year.

TAGS: jobs, manufacturing

Chicagoans the most-taxed residents in Illinois, paying more than 30 city taxes

By Ted Dabrowski

01/07/2016

Not only are city officials making Chicagoans pay more for services that aren't working, they are making them shoulder the highest tax burden in the state.

TAGS: Chicago

Despite massive stock-market rally, Illinois’ pension liabilities go up and up and up

01/05/2016

The fiscal crises caused by the state’s government-worker pension liabilities.

Chicago PMI crashes, new orders and backlogs plunge to May 2009 level

01/04/2016

The December Chicago purchasing managers’ index revealed weaknesses in the regional economy, including in the service sector.

TAGS: Chicago, PMI: purchasing managers' index

Chicago’s sales tax now highest in the nation

By Hilary Gowins

01/01/2016

The sales-tax hike Cook County officials approved in July takes effect Jan. 1, 2016, just in time for end-of-season holiday shopping deals.

TAGS: Chicago, sales tax, taxes

Heavy metals: Behind the fall of Illinois industry

By Austin Berg

01/01/2016

3 important criminal-justice reforms from 2015

By Bryant Jackson-Green

12/31/2015

In 2015, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law bills restricting the transfer of juvenile offenders to adult court, establishing rules for the use of body cameras by police, and creating an expedited process in Cook County to resolve cases involving certain low-level offenses.

TAGS: juvenile court, police body cameras

New Cook County hotel tax will make visiting Chicago even pricier

By Amy Korte

12/31/2015

Cook County’s new 1 percent hotel tax will raise Chicago’s combined hotel tax to 17.4 percent in 2016.

TAGS: Chicago, hotel tax

Why we fight: The faces of Illinois Policy 2015

By Austin Berg

12/30/2015

Changing hearts and minds starts with telling the stories that Illinois’ political machine has forgotten.

How the Liberty Justice Center fought for freedom in 2015

12/29/2015

From challenging the forced unionization of home caregivers and day care providers to suing to stop Chicago from collecting a “Netflix tax,” the Liberty Justice Center has fought for its clients’ constitutional rights and against illegal taxation.

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New year, outta here: Another Illinois manufacturer seeks refuge in Indiana

Chicagoans the most-taxed residents in Illinois, paying more than 30 city taxes

Despite massive stock-market rally, Illinois’ pension liabilities go up and up and up

Chicago PMI crashes, new orders and backlogs plunge to May 2009 level

Chicago’s sales tax now highest in the nation

Heavy metals: Behind the fall of Illinois industry

3 important criminal-justice reforms from 2015

New Cook County hotel tax will make visiting Chicago even pricier

Why we fight: The faces of Illinois Policy 2015

How the Liberty Justice Center fought for freedom in 2015

FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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