Every budget through 2023 will likely be unbalanced as well.
Consolidating governments in the collar counties could help lower residents’ high property taxes.
Under Illinois’ new education funding formula, the wildly mismanaged Chicago school district won’t lose a dime in state funding, no matter how many students it loses.
If aggrieved taxpayers don’t also demand fixes to underlying spending problems, calls for additional tax hikes will return. And they’ll be stronger than ever.
With the repeal of the Cook County sweetened beverage tax, taxpayers remind elected officials who they represent.
S&P Global Ratings has warned that Illinois’ bond sale to help pay old bills could merely add more debt to Illinois’ burden if the state does not also enact fiscal reforms.
The Cook County Board Finance Committee voted Oct. 10 in favor of an ordinance to repeal the unpopular sweetened beverage tax. The repeal measure now awaits a vote before the full board.
Decatur lost 3,400 residents from 2010 to 2016, or about 4.5 percent of its population.
For four decades, government workers have been denied their First Amendment right to freedom of association, but that could change with a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2018.
Lawrence Wyllie is accused of stealing public funds and using school district money for dog obedience schools.