Some steps have been taken to dissolve unnecessary units of governments, but taxpayers need an easier path to eliminate wasteful governmental bodies.
Years of job-killing policies in Illinois have pushed residents out of the state, while nearby Michigan has taken an alternate, pro-growth approach to turn it around.
The outgoing CSU president’s exorbitant severance package highlights the need to rein in Illinois universities’ high administrative costs.
Illinois stands out in the industrial Midwest for its skewed government-to-manufacturing-jobs ratio.
AFSCME wants the state to hike taxes on Illinois residents to fund the union’s demands for salary and benefit increases.
A majority of Illinois voters surveyed in a recent poll back record sealing for nonviolent offenders. Here’s how policymakers should make this happen.
So far, only two food carts have been licensed to sell tamales in Chicago.
August IDES report shows 22,000 people dropped out of the workforce, and 4,400 manufacturing jobs were lost.
City officials in Chicago and across the state are crushing a pillar of the culinary community. But food trucks are fighting back.
A new ordinance would ban all cars with autonomous technology from Chicago, preventing Uber from expanding the fleet of self-driving vehicles it recently introduced in Pittsburgh.
Limiting how much units of government can raise taxes could provide much-needed relief for overtaxed Illinoisans.
On Sept. 2, a state administrative law judge issued a 400-page recommendation regarding the status of contract negotiations between Illinois and the state’s largest government-worker union. Three important things to know about the decision include: the state and AFSCME are in uncharted territory in their negotiation-related proceedings, the judge found the parties have reached impasse on 5 of 12 contested issues and the judge questioned AFSCME’s testimony and behavior during negotiations.
One in every 1,100 homes in Illinois is in bank-owned foreclosure.
New law reduces the rate for which Illinois’ adult and juvenile corrections facilities can contract for inmate telephone service.