Illinois Medicaid expansion enrollment at nearly double original projections

By Jonathan Ingram

09/11/2015

Illinois’ costs for the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion could be nearly $1.5 billion higher than originally expected as the state has added 633,671 able-bodied adults to the rolls.

The case for updating Illinois’ felony-theft laws

By Bryant Jackson-Green

09/10/2015

To make Illinois smarter on crime and save taxpayer dollars, theft laws must be kept up to date

TAGS: felony theft, restorative justice

No luck: Illinois Lottery sued for not paying lottery winners

By Hilary Gowins

09/10/2015

The failure of the General Assembly to pass a state budget prevents Illinois lottery winners from receiving their prize money.

TAGS: illinois lottery

Illinois comptroller: Unpaid bills could grow to $8.5B by year’s end

By Austin Berg

09/10/2015

IOUs continue to flow from a broken state government.

TAGS: debt, Leslie Munger, unpaid bills

Comptroller confirms workers’ compensation costs are a budget issue

By Austin Berg

09/10/2015

Poorly written workers’ compensation laws cost Illinois government hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

TAGS: workers compensation

Chicago’s food-cart ban costs revenue, jobs

By Michael Lucci, Hilary Gowins

09/09/2015

Chicago’s ban on food carts is costing the city jobs and revenue. The city has fallen behind its peers: Street vending from food carts is already legal in 23 of the 25 largest cities in the U.S. The Illinois Policy Institute conducted a survey of nearly 200 Chicago food-cart street vendors to assess the social...

Four factors that created the CPS pension crisis

By Ted Dabrowski

09/08/2015

How Illinois politicians turned what was meant to provide government workers with retirement security into a political slush fund.

TAGS: Chicago, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel

Madigan and power

By Scott Reeder

09/08/2015

In the history of the United States, no one has led a state legislative body longer than Mike Madigan.

TAGS: Mike Madigan

Cruel summer: Mass layoffs hit 2,100 Illinois workers in August

By Austin Berg

09/08/2015

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

TAGS: jobs

SB 1229 officially dead: Madigan’s defeat is Illinois taxpayers’ victory

By Heather Weiner

09/05/2015

On Sept. 2, the Illinois House of Representatives failed to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of the government-worker union arbitration bill, and on Sept. 4, the deadline for doing so officially expired – a major defeat for House Speaker Mike Madigan.

TAGS: AFSCME: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Mike Madigan, SB 1229

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Illinois Medicaid expansion enrollment at nearly double original projections

The case for updating Illinois’ felony-theft laws

No luck: Illinois Lottery sued for not paying lottery winners

Illinois comptroller: Unpaid bills could grow to $8.5B by year’s end

Comptroller confirms workers’ compensation costs are a budget issue

Chicago’s food-cart ban costs revenue, jobs

Four factors that created the CPS pension crisis

Madigan and power

Cruel summer: Mass layoffs hit 2,100 Illinois workers in August

SB 1229 officially dead: Madigan’s defeat is Illinois taxpayers’ victory

FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students