If he wants to keep money in Illinois and away from the Trump administration, the answer is easy: Opt into the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program, which provides a tax credit to donors who give ...

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

A report from the union itself showed it had 16,500 fewer members last year than it claimed. Is it lying about anything else?

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

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

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

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

Illinois homebuyers face a tough reality: Rising prices are pushing once-affordable communities out of reach for many ...

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

Illinois’ public universities have lost 13,062 students during the past 20 years, but three gained. They lost state funding while the losers got more money.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants $589 million in business-focused tax hikes. That would endanger Illinois’ long-term economic stability.

Illinois students would be eligible for money from donors to access support under the Educational Choice for Children Act.