Illinois lost 3,000 jobs on net in 2015, while other neighboring and Great Lakes manufacturing states all gained tens of thousands of jobs on net for the year.

Enjoy Life Foods plans to move its lone Illinois manufacturing facility and up to 150 jobs to southern Indiana this year.

Part 3 of Illinois’ broken workers’ compensation system: the major components of the 2011 reform

Part 2 of Illinois’ broken workers’ compensation system: the reform law signed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich in 2005, which addressed medical fees and billing, provided benefit increases, and contained anti-fraud provisions.

Breaking down the overall high cost and regulatory burden borne by businesses.

Illinois has a stunning loss of 105,000 people to other states, causing population to shrink by 22,000.

Of the 50 states, Illinois was the top population loser.