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A bill to make more public records readily available would better show taxpayers how local governments spend money.
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President Donald Trump has commuted the federal prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the president told reporters Tuesday.
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A common misconception in Illinois is that voters are numb to this reality. But polling released this week, commissioned by the Illinois Education Association, shows that’s not true.
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Despite Gov. J.B. Pritzker touting growth in “every major region,” Illinois shed jobs in three metropolitan areas and lagged the national average in seven more.
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Expungement and sealing fees cause individuals with erroneous criminal records to have a hard time moving forward with their lives.
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A trip to renew your state ID or driver’s license can be a confusing experience. Here is what you need to know before you go to get a REAL ID.
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Across all five state retirement systems, typical career workers pay for about 5% of the cost of their pension benefits. They receive an average of $1.7 million to $3.6 million.
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The historic change comes as skyrocketing property tax bills eat into Illinois homeowners’ bottom line.
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Illinois suffered its sixth consecutive year of population decline in 2019, driven entirely by residents leaving for other states.
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Simply 'diminishing pensions' not the only or best solution for IL state pension crisis, lawyer says
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Nearly half of the 20 tax and fee hikes passed to support a record $40 billion state budget and $45 billion infrastructure plan hit on New Year’s Day.
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Illinois faces many billions in debt and tax demands for pensions. Gov. Pritzker says amending the state constitution won't help
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SEIU’s political action committees gave $113,200 to Friends of Michael J. Madigan – the same election committee the longtime Illinois House speaker used to pay legal fees in a sexual harassment lawsuit against his organization.
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There is little doubt the FBI is targeting the longtime House speaker and Democratic political boss in their sweeping investigation of Illinois corruption.
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This home at 6555 Fox Lake Drive in Edwardsville sold for $800,000.
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An Illinois state appeals court has been asked to decide if a judge in Springfield improperly ducked the question of whether state lawmakers illegally borrowed billions of dollars to pay down bills, when such actions may be forbidden by the Illinois state constitution.
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The once-powerful state officeholder previously resigned as chairman of the influential Illinois Senate Transportation Committee in October.
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Due to a pension sweetener available only to veteran Illinois lawmakers, Cullerton’s annual pension will soon be more than he ever made from his Statehouse salary.
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Illinois has nation’s worst pension debt. Maybe that’s because state lawmakers take a problem they aren’t sure exists, apply a solution they don’t know will work and never determine the cost.
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A new report confirms what many Illinoisans already knew: the state is one of the most heavily regulated in America, with nearly 260,000 state rules.