Poll: Nearly 3-in-5 Illinoisans say property taxes don’t deliver value

By Dylan Sharkey

04/24/2023

Fifty-eight percent of Illinois voters polled said their property taxes don’t provide enough value in public services. Illinoisans pay the second-highest property taxes in the nation.

Cook County seeks to implement permanent guaranteed income

By Patrick Andriesen

05/31/2022

Cook County officials promised to make the nation’s now-largest publicly-funded guaranteed income experiment permanent May 18 shortly after introducing the initiative. The trial will start accepting applicants in the fall.

TAGS: Cook County, UBI: Universal Basic Income

Chicago’s COVID-19 rules hit minority neighborhood restaurants harder

By Patrick Andriesen

01/19/2022

Restaurant owners in Chicago communities with low COVID-19 vaccination rates, mostly on the city’s South and West sides, say pushback against the vaccine proof mandate has hurt sales and cost them customers.

TAGS: Chicago, COVID-19, vaccine mandate

Puzzled by property taxes: Improving transparency and fairness in Illinois’ assessment system

By Amy Korte

07/19/2018

Illinois should take steps toward more accurate and frequent property assessments to ensure the tax burden is distributed as fairly as possible.

Property-tax-for-pensions plan would pummel Illinois homeowners

By Orphe Divounguy, Bryce Hill, Joe Tabor

05/25/2018

With one proposal to pay off Illinois’ pension debt asking the typical homeowner to pay more than $1,900 in additional property taxes for the next 30 years, the stakes for pension reform have never been clearer.

Illinois school district consolidation provides path to efficiency, lower tax burdens

By Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner

04/22/2016

Nearly 25 percent of Illinois school districts serve just one school, and over one-third of all school districts have fewer than 600 students.

Long ER waits at University of Chicago not surprising in the wake of ACA

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

12/29/2014

There should be little doubt that these access problems will be exacerbated as the state has essentially handed out 500,000 Medicaid cards without providing any additional capacity for patient care.

TAGS: health care, University of Chicago

Chicago takes pole position in race for Obama library, no tax dollars required

By Jane McEnaney

09/16/2014

On Sept. 15, the Barack Obama Foundation announced four semifinalists in the battle to build Barack Obama’s presidential library and museum. The four potential host sites include the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University in New York City and the University of Hawaii. Holding two of the four slots, the...

TAGS: Barack Obama, library, Obama presidential library, taxes

Illinois corruption watch, July 2014

By Brian Costin

08/09/2014

The bad news keeps piling up for Illinoisans. Illinois Policy’s “corruption watch” blog series hit a new high in the month of July with nearly 100 corruption-related stories. Chicago and Springfield are the two cities most synonymous with the state’s corruption woes. Unsurprisingly, both cities dominated headlines with the top two corruption stories of the...

New study shows there’s no such thing as a lost cause when it comes to education

01/28/2014

It’s never too late to help a struggling student. An amazing new study conducted by the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Lab shows that intense tutoring combined with group behavioral counseling can help high school students with weak math skills, chronic truancy and disciplinary problems improve their performance. The study showed impressive gains. In fact,...

TAGS: charter schools, school choice, vouchers

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Poll: Nearly 3-in-5 Illinoisans say property taxes don’t deliver value

Cook County seeks to implement permanent guaranteed income

Chicago’s COVID-19 rules hit minority neighborhood restaurants harder

Puzzled by property taxes: Improving transparency and fairness in Illinois’ assessment system

Property-tax-for-pensions plan would pummel Illinois homeowners

Illinois school district consolidation provides path to efficiency, lower tax burdens

Long ER waits at University of Chicago not surprising in the wake of ACA

Chicago takes pole position in race for Obama library, no tax dollars required

Illinois corruption watch, July 2014

New study shows there’s no such thing as a lost cause when it comes to education

4 ways to break out of Illinois’ pension trap

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Diana Graham

Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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