Hear them ring: Illinois wireless taxes jack up the price of Christmas gifts

By Austin Berg

12/23/2015

Illinoisans pay more in wireless taxes than residents of any neighboring state.

Illinois jails incarcerate many people who don’t need to be there in the first place

By Bryant Jackson-Green

12/11/2015

Illinois jails book over 2.6 times the number of people they did in 1981, costing taxpayers money and keeping many people who have not yet been convicted of crimes behind bars.

State Rep. Cassidy reintroduces marijuana decriminalization bill

By Mark Fitton

12/11/2015

Twenty states and the District of Columbia have removed the threat of jail time for simple marijuana possession.

TAGS: decriminalization

The Chicago squeeze: Property taxes, fees and over 30 individual taxes crush city residents

By Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner

12/08/2015

Chicagoans are the most-taxed residents of any major city in Illinois and pay the 10th-highest property taxes compared to taxpayers in other large U.S. cities.

In Friedrichs case, First Amendment freedom must trump federalism

12/04/2015

The states are the laboratories of democracy, but their experiments can’t violate citizens’ constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of association under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Libertarians sue to lift Illinois’ ban on campaign giving by medical marijuana industry

By Mark Fitton

11/24/2015

Plaintiffs ask the court to find the campaign contribution ban unconstitutional and forbid its enforcement.

TAGS: campaign finance

Illinoisans pay nearly a quarter of their wireless bills in taxes

By Austin Berg

11/19/2015

Illinoisans pay nearly a quarter of their wireless bills in taxes, while Chicagoans pay more taxes on wireless service than residents of any other major city in the country.

TAGS: cell phone tax

Moody’s: Chicago laggard in economic growth

By Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner

11/12/2015

A new report by Moody’s Investors Service details Chicago’s weak economic growth and increasing government-worker pension obligations.

Illinois lost 1 resident every 7 minutes in 2013

By Michael Lucci

10/08/2015

Newly released IRS data show Illinois lost on net over 81,000 taxpayers and their dependents, and $4.1 billion of annual taxable income to other states in 2013.

TAGS: IRS: Internal Revenue Service, outmigration

Illinois lost 1 resident and $50,000 in taxable income every 7 minutes in 2013

By Michael Lucci

10/08/2015

Newly released IRS data show Illinois lost on net over 81,000 taxpayers and their dependents, and $4.1 billion of annual taxable income to other states in 2013.

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Hear them ring: Illinois wireless taxes jack up the price of Christmas gifts

Illinois jails incarcerate many people who don’t need to be there in the first place

State Rep. Cassidy reintroduces marijuana decriminalization bill

The Chicago squeeze: Property taxes, fees and over 30 individual taxes crush city residents

In Friedrichs case, First Amendment freedom must trump federalism

Libertarians sue to lift Illinois’ ban on campaign giving by medical marijuana industry

Illinoisans pay nearly a quarter of their wireless bills in taxes

Moody’s: Chicago laggard in economic growth

Illinois lost 1 resident every 7 minutes in 2013

Illinois lost 1 resident and $50,000 in taxable income every 7 minutes in 2013

Fighting poverty with employment: Chicago block clubs

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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