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Ready for the Snow? Gauging Illinois’s Performance on a Critical Core Service

By Kate Campaigne Piercy
02/16/2010
In January 1979, a severe winter storm blasted Chicago. The city government failed to clear the roads of snow, which virtually shut down the metropolis for a week. The snow closed O’Hare International Airport for a record 42 hours. Drifts, many of them 12 feet high, blocked more than 1,400 of the city’s streets. An...

Chicago’s Snow Clearing Performance: Take Two

02/10/2010
by Kate Piercy Tuesday’s snowfall gave the Illinois Policy Institute another opportunity to grade Chicago’s snow response performance. The Institute monitored arterial and side roads in the morning, afternoon, and early evening. City trucks focused primarily on main roads Tuesday, leaving side roads monitored by the Institute untouched. The Institute monitored the city’s response to...

Gauging Illinois’s Performance on a Critical Core Service

01/31/2010
Residents of Illinois demand clear and safe roads. State and local agencies must budget and prepare for the winter season, and then perform up to certain standards when the snow comes. Otherwise, we risk losing money, time and lives.

Chicago’s Snow Clearing Performance: Take Two

01/31/2010
by Kate Piercy Tuesday’s snowfall gave the Illinois Policy Institute another opportunity to grade Chicago’s snow response performance. The Institute monitored arterial and side roads in the morning, afternoon, and early evening. City trucks focused primarily on main roads Tuesday, leaving side roads monitored by the Institute untouched. The Institute monitored the city’s response to...

How To Kill Carp

01/19/2010
Michigan can't sue Illinois over the Asian Carp. They don't have to.

Ten Cool Tax Breaks

01/06/2010
If we can't an across-the-board tax cut, let's pile up the tax breaks.

A Liberty Agenda for Illinois

08/21/2008
Executive Summary Every day, the state of Illinois is in a competition with 49 other states and the rest of the world.  The rewards for succeeding?  More businesses, more jobs, more resources, and a better place to live for all citizens.  Unfortunately, the Illinois economy is lagging behind—and unless we turn away from the government-centered...
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Chicago Forward 2026: A pro-growth plan to end city budget deficits

Chicago’s $1.15 billion projected budget gap is the latest in a decades-long string of structural deficits. Making Chicago’s high taxes worse is not the solution.

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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

By Ted Dabrowski
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