Chicago businesses reported the lowest recorded employment score since May 2009, according to the Chicago Business Barometer.

That price increase shoots up to 49.5% when looking at the past eight years. A typical Illinois home was valued at $187,874 ...

Illinois’ opaque budget process handed $12 million to NASCAR. Fast and furious is no way to treat taxpayers’ money.

Illinois’ hidden budgeting process let lawmakers hand out 2,815 grants, including $7 million to move the University of ...

At least 49 tax hikes under Gov. J.B. Pritzker have driven state spending to record highs, even as Illinois’ economic growth ...

Using taxpayer dollars intended to educate children, over 600 Chicago Public Schools staffers exploited lax rules to take ...

Illinois progressives want to reimagine capitalism and hand out free money with the tax dollars you worked for.

Whether your vice is drinking, tobacco, cannabis or gambling, Illinois is enjoying $3.47 billion from taxing it.

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The Illinois General Assembly failed to pass a full budget for fiscal year 2016 and only passed a stopgap budget for fiscal year 2017. State politicians have done nothing to stop Illinois’ unpaid ...

Lilly Rossi is a Policy Research Assistant at the Illinois Policy Institute. Previously, she worked for the Institute as a Policy Intern. Lilly graduated from the University of Illinois ...