The northwest suburb of Barrington passed an ordinance to allow local businesses to forgo Cook County’s minimum wage hike, which has the potential to be devastating for jobs in the county.

Workers’ compensation is a significant cost to Illinois taxpayers and drains scarce tax dollars from government coffers. Political and business leaders often view workers’ compensation as a costly regulation that affects private-sector investment and employment in Illinois.[1] This description is accurate yet incomplete. The same heavy costs imposed on private-sector employers[2] are also imposed on...

Millennial out-migration from the Land of Lincoln is worse than all its neighboring states.

Since the beginning of 2015, Illinois has lost 14,100 manufacturing jobs.

New Airbnb regulations pose a serious problem for Chicagoans.

A repeal of the federal estate tax would make it imperative that Illinois get rid of its own state death tax to avoid losing even more residents and income to other states.

Illinois may soon be surrounded by Right-to-Work states.