Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White’s office is seeking bids to determine the feasibility of allowing electronic driver’s licenses.
Illinois’ anti-growth policies depress middle-class wages and job opportunities.
“I have friends who are very successful and friends who are barely getting by. I’d say our family is in the middle of that, living paycheck to paycheck. My husband is an Army veteran and we have two kids. “We love our neighborhood. We love our house. We built it 13 years ago and our...
Amid budget gridlock, Illinois lottery winners sue to have their winnings paid with interest and to prevent the state from selling more tickets it can’t pay out.
The states are the laboratories of democracy, but their experiments can’t violate citizens’ constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of association under the First Amendment of the Constitution.
The Illinois House of Representatives concluded its 2015 session without passing a budget, relying instead on piecemeal legislation to resolve policy issues and fill funding gaps.
Amid continued budget gridlock in Springfield, Senate Bill 2039 provides funds to pay Illinois Lottery winners, as well as to allow for road maintenance, 911-center operations and projects by Chicago’s tourism office, among other local government programs.
“This is the best job I’ve ever had. “I was a nursing assistant before this. I have two kids and the pay here is so much better. When I came in [the owner] taught me how to weld and do other fabrication work. “But it’s sad that I have friends who want these kinds of...
“I’ve been doing this work my whole life. It used to be that you could get a job at Caterpillar and if you didn’t like it you could walk across the street and get another job. In other places that still happens. Not here. “We’re lucky our little shop has found a niche. We do...
Since 2010, Illinois has lost on net 2.6 percent of its taxpayers and dependents, along with billions of dollars of taxable income, dwarfing the rates of out-migration of other Midwestern and neighboring states.
House Bill 1285 also clarifies the definitions of employee misconduct allowing for denial of benefits.