Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman joined Tom Miller on WJPF Radio to discuss pension reform in Illinois.
Voters in Macomb might feel a little bit of déjà vu when they look at their ballots on Tuesday and see Kay Hill and Steven Wailand vying for the second district alderman seat.
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Back in February, Illinois Senate Democrats pushed through Senate Bill 26, which would impose ObamaCares massive expansion of Medicaid on Illinois.
In January 2012, the Illinois Auditor Generals office set up a fraud hotline to provide Illinoisans a way to sound the alarm on corruption. After all, Illinois is the third-most corrupt state in America.
Too bad Puerto Rico isnt a state. If it were, Puerto Rico, and not Illinois, would have the nations worst-funded pension system and the countrys worst credit rating.
Check any dictionary and the definition of majority seems pretty self-explanatory: it is simply a greater quantity or share.
The US economy created only 88,000 jobs in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The market was expecting approximately 200,000 new payroll jobs.
Illinoisans should keep an eye on Michigan, where a new Right-to-Work law has now gone into effect.
The Illinois Education Association, or IEA, is training its members to advocate for a plan that, ironically, increases taxes on teachers.
the overall trend indicates that The Illinois public university system is getting worse in complying with state and federal laws, leaving the system vulnerable to future cases of public corruption.
To tax-hungry politicians, the Internet is like California in 1849 a vast expanse of untapped wealth.
WBEZ in Chicago has published one of the more incomplete stories on charter schools Ive read in a long time. It asserts: Charter advocates and even the Chicago Tribune editorial board say 19,000 kids are on charter school waiting lists in the city.
With nearly 300,000 residents, Stockton is the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. It is also one of several California cities to file for bankruptcy due to the recession and skyrocketing government worker pension costs.