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  • Ideas Illinois chair: Legislators should release their own tax returns

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Glenn Minnis | Feb 15, 2019

    Greg Baise is desperately trying to make sense of all the tax madness.

  • Only 3 other states, District of Columbia have $15 minimum wage

    From DuPage Policy Journal
    by LGIS News Service | Feb 8, 2019

    If a current Senate bill clears the House and is signed into law, Illinois will join three other states and the District of Columbia in soon paying a minimum wage of $15 per hour.

  • Illinios education officials want half the state's budget, Wirepoints warns

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Jan 31, 2019

    Illinois education officials are out to get half of the state's budget—and they just might—to the detriment of the state's taxpayers, according to an online Wirepoints newsletter issued earlier today.

  • University of Illinois freezes tuition – but still higher than 12 of 13 Big 10 conference peers

    From Chambana Sun
    by LGIS Newsfeed | Jan 31, 2019

    In-state tuition and book costs for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will continue to be among the highest for schools in the Big 10 conference, despite the UI Board of Trustees' vote on Thursday to extend an in-state tuition freeze for the fifth-straight year.

  • EDITORIAL: Gov. Pritzker's new climate strategy is all pain, no gain

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Jay Lehr, Ph.D and Tom Harris | Jan 30, 2019

    High taxes, record debt, underfunded pensions, notorious corruption, and an ongoing urban crime problem are only a few of Illinois’ most pressing problems.

  • IPI: FBI's secret Madigan recordings in affidavit reveal nothing new about speaker's operations

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Jan 29, 2019

    Illinois's powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago), earlier today revealed to be a target in the same FBI investigation that led to an extortion indictment against a Chicago alderman, is not accused of anything new, a think tank reported.

  • EDITORIAL: Pritzker’s climate order is all pain, no gain

    From Prairie State Wire
    by James Taylor | Jan 29, 2019

    Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a January 23 executive order committing Illinois to the expensive energy sources and failed carbon-dioxide reduction goals of the United Nations and the Paris Climate Agreement.

  • Are taxes and bans the future of plastic shopping bags in Illinois?

    From Chicago City Wire
    by LGIS News Service | Jan 28, 2019

    The state legislature adjourned before taking action on Senate Bill 1597, which would require Illinois consumers to pay a 5 cent fee for every single-use paper or plastic bag, but similar proposals are being considered at the county and local levels.

  • ISRA director expects new legislature to introduce multiple anti-gun measures

    From North Cook News
    by Glenn Minnis | Jan 25, 2019

    Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, is warning members that he believes Senate Bill 107, aimed at banning “assault weapons,” will not be the last attack on legal gun owners.

  • 5 candidates file to run for trustees in Evansville

    by LGIS News Service | Jan 22, 2019

    Evansville voters will decide who will serve as trustees when they head to the polls on April 2.

  • Market Watch: Michael J. Connolly lost over $351,000 on Lemont home

    From Save Your Home Now
    by SYHN News Service | Jan 13, 2019

    Illinois' highest-in-the-nation property taxes are eroding home equity and depressing home values across the state. This report is part of a SYHN News Service series on recent home sales that demonstrate the consequences.

  • Market Watch: Homeowners lose over $144,000 on Orland Park home

    From Save Your Home Now
    by SYHN News Service | Jan 13, 2019

    Illinois' highest-in-the-nation property taxes are eroding home equity and depressing home values across the state. This report is part of a SYHN News Service series on recent home sales that demonstrate the consequences.

  • Analysis: Illinois posted 9th lowest individual income tax rate in 2018

    From Illinois Business Daily
    by Illinois Business Daily reports | Jan 10, 2019

    Illinois ranked No. 36 for its top individual income tax rate, according to a Tax Foundation analysis of 2018 tax numbers that tracked the District of Columbia and the 43 states that levy such taxes.

  • Skillicorn encourages state GOP to regroup

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Glenn Minnis | Jan 4, 2019

    State Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) views the GOP's losses in November as an opportunity for rebirth.

  • Illinois has 20th highest home vacancy rate in nation

    From Illinois Business Daily
    by Illinois Business Daily reports | Dec 30, 2018

    Illinois posted the 20th highest home vacancy rate among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to new real estate numbers reported by ATTOM Data Solutions.

  • Robert Morris University has most student athletes in Illinois

    From Illinois Business Daily
    by Illinois Business Daily reports | Dec 26, 2018

    Robert Morris University Illinois ranked No. 1 for student athletic participation in the state, according to an Illinois Business Daily analysis of college sports participation.

  • Illinois’ recent rate of population loss was 3rd highest in U.S.

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Prairie State Wire reports | Dec 19, 2018

    Illinois’ rate of population decline between July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018, was the third highest among the 50 states and Puerto Rico, according to population estimates released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.

  • Morrison, Ives urge rebuilding GOP after Rauner confesses election apathy

    From DuPage Policy Journal
    by Robert Hadley | Dec 16, 2018

    A bombshell new report that soon-to-be ex-Gov. Bruce Rauner bailed out on his reelection campaign has some Republicans fuming.

  • Legislature overrides some Rauner vetoes, fails on others

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Dec 6, 2018

    Illinois's outgoing Republican governor saw a few of his vetoes overridden during the Fall Veto Session in Springfield and a few new laws have been passed, a QUAD city area lawmaker said in a summary recap released last week.

  • State facing huge debt for public-sector retiree health benefits, says Wirepoints

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Dec 5, 2018

    Illinois's "other debt disaster" is $73 billion in unfunded state retiree health insurance benefits and more than twice that amount owed over the next four decades, according to a special report issued this week by an online news outlet.

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