Gas prices in Illinois are up 48% from last Memorial Day. Here’s what to know about the state’s gas tax.
Going into this budget cycle, there should be an added urgency for the City Council to build its capacity to play a co-equal role in the budget process and push to adopt more reforms and efficiencies to control spending.
Lawmakers make costly decisions without understanding the economic impact.
Any deal linked to a stadium should benefit everyone.
Bucking the practice of recent years, lawmakers introduced the proposed budget more than three weeks before the May 31 end of the session.
High chronic absenteeism will no longer hurt a school’s state rating.
At least 31 states have said they plan to opt into the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program.
Peoria Public Schools is adopting evidence-based practices.
Twelve county boards to date have adopted resolutions pushing for the governor to opt into a donor-funded federal program for academic needs.
Chicago grew for a third straight year, but the growth is slowing down compared to previous years.
A federal judge found Cook County liable for damages to taxpayers who lost the equity in their homes because of an unconstitutional state law.
The governor’s proposal would face challenges.