Nippon Sharyo points to prototype difficulties and unspecified business concerns as the main reasons behind the layoffs.
Illinois’ state workers are the highest-paid in the nation when adjusting for cost of living.
Running out of ideas, the Illinois Senate takes aim at poor people to fund record-high state spending.
Illinois’ weak economic growth and population loss may signal the beginning of a financial death spiral.
Despite declining tax revenues and warning signs of a possible recession, Illinois lawmakers in Springfield are mulling tax hikes.
The Illinois State Board of Elections is accusing state Rep. Thaddeus Jones, who is now running for mayor of Calumet City, of misusing thousands of dollars of campaign funds.
The company plans on moving its white-collar workforce to Naperville, while keeping its manufacturing plant in Michigan.
AFSCME – the state’s largest government-worker union – spent two years pushing for contract provisions that would cost state taxpayers billions. Now that the union has lost before the state labor board, it has issued a “framework” for compromise. But that “framework” is merely a publicity stunt to make the union appear reasonable while union leaders threaten a strike to obtain contract provisions that burden state taxpayers.
The Senate on Inauguration Day took action to limit the power of its legislative leaders. Meanwhile, House Democrats re-elected Mike Madigan as House speaker, ensuring he will become the longest-tenured legislative leader in modern American history.
At the end of his term in 2019, Madigan will be the longest-serving House speaker of any state in modern U.S. history.
The newly re-elected House speaker is pushing a new tax on businesses, an increase to the minimum wage and more spending, while doing nothing to address salient problems such as workers’ compensation and pension debt.