Chicago alderman wants to limit trick-or-treating due to creepy clowns

By Brendan Bakala

10/07/2016

Despite the city’s impending teachers strike, unaffordable pension debt and declining population, a Chicago alderman warns against late night trick-or-treating for fear of clowns.

TAGS: Chicago, regulations

Peoria hits record low for manufacturing jobs amid CAT layoffs

By Michael Lucci

09/30/2016

The Land of Lincoln’s unfriendly climate for manufacturers has weakened Illinois cities, discouraged investment and made the state uncompetitive in the region.

TAGS: jobs, manufacturing, unemployment, workers compensation

Injured Illinois workers take 50 percent more time off than peers in surrounding states

By Michael Lucci

09/23/2016

Illinois law gives financial incentives to many injured workers to stay off the job and to doctors to prescribe more medications to workers’ compensation patients.

TAGS: jobs, unemployment, workers compensation

August jobs report: Worst manufacturing month since Great Recession, unemployment falls due to workforce dropout

By Michael Lucci

09/22/2016

The August BLS jobs report shows Illinois is down 8,000 manufacturing jobs on the year, giving the state the worst manufacturing job losses in the region, and a summer workforce contraction totaling 100,000 people.

TAGS: jobs, manufacturing, unemployment

Government jobs surpass manufacturing jobs by 175,000 in Illinois

By Michael Lucci

09/16/2016

Illinois stands out in the industrial Midwest for its skewed government-to-manufacturing-jobs ratio.

TAGS: jobs, manufacturing, unemployment, workers compensation

Illinois’ out-migration rate many times worse than rates in surrounding states

By Michael Lucci

09/09/2016

The Land of Lincoln’s out-migration crisis is the most severe in the region and worsening over time.

TAGS: jobs, outmigration, population

Illinois’ labor-participation rate lowest since 1970s

By Illinois News Network

09/09/2016

Illinois lags the rest of the Midwest in recovering from the recession.

TAGS: jobs, unemployment

Illinois is a high-tax state

By John Klingner

08/17/2016

Illinois had the fourth-highest combined state and local tax burden as a share of state income in the country.

COGFA report points to manufacturing as cause of Illinois’ high unemployment

By Michael Lucci

08/17/2016

Illinois’ weak manufacturing recovery from the Great Recession has led to the Land of Lincoln’s having the worst unemployment rate among nearby and neighboring Rust Belt states.

TAGS: manufacturing, workers compensation

Majority of Illinoisans support criminal-justice reform

By Bryant Jackson-Green

08/08/2016

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Chicago alderman wants to limit trick-or-treating due to creepy clowns

Peoria hits record low for manufacturing jobs amid CAT layoffs

Injured Illinois workers take 50 percent more time off than peers in surrounding states

August jobs report: Worst manufacturing month since Great Recession, unemployment falls due to workforce dropout

Government jobs surpass manufacturing jobs by 175,000 in Illinois

Illinois’ out-migration rate many times worse than rates in surrounding states

Illinois’ labor-participation rate lowest since 1970s

Illinois is a high-tax state

COGFA report points to manufacturing as cause of Illinois’ high unemployment

Majority of Illinoisans support criminal-justice reform

Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

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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