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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Pensions vs. schools
Since 2009, 89 cents of every new dollar for education goes to teacher pensions
Busting the myth that Chicago taxes are low
An analysis of Chicago’s taxation and revenue in perspective
Power outage: Inside Illinois’ Hispanic opportunity gap
“I was born poor and I will die poor. The best inheritance I can give to my children is an education.”
Apagón educativo: La brecha de oportunidades para hispanos en Illinois
"Nací pobre y me moriré pobre. La mejor herencia que le puedo dejar a mis hijos es una educación".
Oportunidad: Student success, Hispanic achievement gaps and the future of Illinois
The achievement gaps between white and Hispanic students in Illinois’ public schools, and the need to fundamentally reform the education system.
The anatomy of influence: Government unions in Illinois
The five major government unions in Illinois spent a combined $46 million in political campaigns from 2002 to 2014.
Moody’s: Illinois an outlier in pension debt
Illinois ranks worst in the nation on ability to pay for its pension debt.
Illinois court rules state owes AFSCME workers
On Sept. 31, a panel of judges from an Illinois appellate court found that state employees were owed back pay under the contract between the state and Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME. This has set off celebrations at AFSCME, whose position all along was that the...
