The Chicago Teachers Union's lengthy list of demands includes base raises and experience compensation each year, housing help, climate justice, more compensation added to pension calculations and a pool of health care funds targeted to racial disparities. An analysis puts the price tag at least $10 billion.
Thousands of vacant properties sit undeveloped in Chicago thanks to environmental review.
Many people still view a college degree as a requirement into the workforce and toward future prosperity. The data beg to differ.
Illinois’ Hispanic population is growing the most while the Asian population growing the fastest.
Enrollment at Chicago Public Schools has dropped by 31,905 students since 2019. The district’s staff has increased by 5,472 full-time equivalent staff members over that same period. CPS now has 323,251 students and 43,255 staff members, including teachers.
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This coming Independence Day, motorists fueling up in Illinois will be paying even more at the gas pump.
Chicagoans reported 7.8% more violent crime from June 2023 through May 2024, led primarily by a spike in robberies. West and South Side residents bore the brunt of the increase as arrest rates continued to decline.
Chicago Ald. Will Hall, 6th ward, proposed 16 new tax and fee hikes to fellow city council members in a survey.
In 2023, just 35.4% of Illinois public school students were proficient in reading and 27.1% in math. For low-income students in particular, the numbers were distressingly lower.
Data shows Illinoisans who would have been working a generation ago are not today.
This edition of The Policy Shop is by policy analyst Hannah Schmid. If you were given $68,000 per student and two staffers for every three students, what do you think the result would be? National Honor Society graduates with Ivy League schools clamoring for their presence? Well, not if you gave that money to the Chicago Teachers...
The relationship between family formation and prosperity is accepted across the political spectrum.
Time-consuming steps in Chicago’s affordable housing program stops the city from seeing more housing.