Motorola is expected to cut hundreds of workers from its Chicago operations.

There’s a reason new facilities aren’t being built in Illinois: In too many cases a business investment in Illinois doesn’t make financial sense unless Illinois taxpayers are paying for a chunk of the project. This system isn’t good for businesses, or for workers and unions that are losing jobs. Until Illinois makes the broad tax and regulatory reforms needed to compete for blue-collar jobs, businesses are going to keep expanding elsewhere or asking for tax breaks to come here.

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

Walgreens’ 270-person layoffs are the latest in a series of corporate job losses in Illinois.

Motorola Mobility’s layoffs will leave 500 Chicago workers without jobs in a state that impedes economic growth.

Nearly 600 Illinois workers will be laid off come 2015, according to notices filed in accordance with the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN. Among the layoffs – which include 123 workers at Dixon, Illinois-based Anchor Coupling Inc.; 82 workers at plastics products-maker Pp Il LLC; and 58 workers at Jim’s Formal Wear,...