Illinois lawmakers pay themselves the fifth-highest annual lawmaker base salary in the country.

Chicago Public Schools’ postponement of its $875 million bond sale indicates investors’ concerns over the financial state of the district.

Illinois has gone without a comprehensive budget for six months.

State politicians will decide the fate of Chicago’s demand for more money, but a budget vote isn’t likely before January 2016.

The driving goal of the Illinois Policy Institute is to transform liberty principles into marketable policies that become law. The ultimate sign of success is when free market ideas are enacted into laws that change Illinoisans’ lives for the better. Illinois Policy Action’s 2014 legislative agenda emphasized the importance of a financially responsible and limited...