Seventy percent of Illinoisans believe state government is spending too much money, according to a study released Wednesday.

Seventy percent of Illinoisans believe state government is spending too much money, according to a study released Wednesday. 


Late last night, the legislature passed personal and corporate income tax increases. Check out what Mayor Daley has to say about it.

Governors Scott Walker from Wisconsin and Mitch Daniels of Indiana are enthusiastic while Illinois reels from the tax hysteria that hit the state this morning.

The economy is bad and the state’s fiscal situation is worse. Lawmakers wouldn’t have raised taxes unless they needed to, right? Wrong.

On the same day the General Assembly abolished the death penalty, lawmakers also implemented the death penalty on Illinois’s economy and taxpayers by passing a 67 percent income tax hike in the face of overwhelming public opposition.

At Tuesday’s funeral for fallen Chicago Firefighter Edward Stringer, mourners heard from a number of people who praised his work on behalf of the city, but it was some of the words from the fire department’s chaplain that had people talking afterward. Father Thomas Mulcrone made specific mention of the debate over the rising cost...

The latest developments from Springfield on the income tax hike proposal.

See where the Institute has been featured in the news regarding the proposed income tax hike.