Illinois has 181 open state and federal seats this year, the vast majority of those in the state General Assembly. Of the 362 ...

The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding a day of “no work” and “no school” on May 1. It’s launching “what amounts to a ...

The Cook County Board now has before it the opportunity to formally recommend that the state to opt in to the Federal ...

Legislators should use fiscal notes to show taxpayers the economic impact of their proposals. Illinois taxpayers should know ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants to spend at least $250 million to target the state’s housing affordability crisis, and the money ...

J.B. Pritzker made Illinois’ acute housing shortage a focus in his recent State of the State address, proposing to make ...

Chicago homeowners have suffered in recent years. While property taxes did increase in some Cook County suburbs in 2024, city ...

Chicago business activity expanded in February for the second straight month, according to the Chicago Business Barometer.

Supporters are branding the effort as a “millionaires tax.” Illinois voters have heard that promise before. In 2020 they ...

The state’s data center boom is reshaping energy, water use and taxes. Here’s what residents should know about the costs, ...

J.B. Pritzker’s tenure as governor suggests that his proposed record-high $56 billion budget for fiscal 2027 is likely to grow before it’s enacted. Since 2019, final budgets have averaged $939 million ...

Illinoisans would pay a new bag tax under a proposed bill in Springfield. The tax would only deepen concerns that the state ...