The state will slash its sales tax for 10 days this month.

Chicago’s biggest music event brings in millions in revenue for the city, but tickets to the lakefront festival carry the amusement taxes and overnight visitors pay the nation’s highest hotel tax.

A sales tax increase for the Regional Transportation Authority, soon to replaced by the Northern Illinois Transit Authority, takes effect Aug. 1.

Chicago will have one of the highest big-city rates in the country when the transit tax inches up Aug. 1.

Fare evasion leads to lower revenue and higher crime. Two cities have found a way to fight it.

The governor said Illinoisans wouldn’t be interested in a toll increase to keep the Bears. Then he signaled support for what would be the largest passenger toll hike in state history.