Gov. Bruce Rauner announced plans to restrict tax breaks for companies for retaining existing employees – putting an end to excessive tax credits that have cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Government data show freedom from forced unionization means better outcomes for workers.

Downtown appeal and state-issued tax credits mask a discouraging jobs climate statewide.

There’s no respite for laid-off Illinois workers in the “summer of pink slips.”

Of the 1,050 new jobs announced, Sprint expects about half to be retail positions and the other half to be filled by wireless experts, network technicians and engineers.

With special tax breaks for Amazon, Illinois resorts to sweetheart deals to overcome the effects of the state’s anti-growth policies, leaving smaller businesses to shoulder the full tax and regulatory burden.

Nearly a third of Illinois layoffs reported in April came from a taxpayer-subsidized move.

For more than a decade, Illinois has been giving select businesses many millions of dollars more in tax credits than the law allows.