Chicago’s 2025 budget is facing a nearly $1 billion gap. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to close it: increase taxes. The city’s ...

Chicago speed cameras sent drivers $28 million less in tickets through September than during the first nine months of 2023.

Illinois saw the third-highest rate of residents moving out in 2024 based on a survey by Atlas Van Lines. Jobs and taxes are ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s senior advisor Jason Lee cast his vote in Texas this November, but Chicago city government ...

NEA has lost nearly 400,000 members since its peak in 2009. It could be because just 9% of the union’s spending is on ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s pensions are worth an estimated $3.8 million after only four years as a teacher and one term ...

New data shows only six of 15 Illinois metropolitan areas added jobs in October as the state shed 2,400 jobs. Twelve metro ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson wanted a $300 million property tax hike for his big budget. All 50 aldermen said “no.” So then ...

A new Cook County state’s attorney inherits crime problems aggravated by her predecessor, Kim Foxx. Eileen O’Neill Burke ...

Montgomery County notified some residents they will not be facing 1,400% property tax hikes as originally planned. The ...

Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson said state lawmakers need to step in and help fix public pensions. Pension debt is the ...

High cigarette taxes give Illinoisans a financial reason to sneak in smokes from other states. Illinois is among the 10 ...