GOP lawmakers say the time to deal with TIFs in school funding formula is now
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Tax Increment Finance (TIF) districts in Illinois hide property wealth from the state in the...
DuPage County Board Member Tonia Khouri Announces Candidacy for State Representative in 49th District
Incumbent Rep. Mike Fortner is not seeking reelection
Tonia Khouri seeks to put her experience saving millions of dollars for DuPage County residents to much-needed use in...
On this edition of Against The Current, Senator Ted Cruz sits down with Dan Proft to discuss the lessons he took away from his POTUS run, his assessment of President Trump's performance eight months in, the four policy priorities...
From Illinois Review
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 2017
WILL COUNTY CONSIDERS VOTE TO SAVE TAXPAYERS BY ENDING ELECTED OFFICIALS' PENSIONS
WILL COUNTY - Members of the Will County Board will vote next week on a measure ending pensions for countywide positions.
"Elected officials should...
The Elected County Wide Positions are: County Clerk, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Sheriff, Auditor, Treasurer, States Attorney, Coroner, County Executive, Regional Office of Education, and Recorder of Deeds. Presently they receive a salary of apx. $90, 000 plus,...
Chicago's Overtime Costs 'Out of Control'
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Chicago is in trouble and continues to flirt with junk bond status.
Can Mayor Rahm Emanuel Manage Chicago?
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Since 2011, more than...
Steve Balich Editor Note: Illinois is taxing its' citizens out of the State. Public Sector Pensions are unsustainable. Yet our leaders want to burden the broken out of cash system with more immigrants getting all sorts of...
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Governor Rauner has used his amendatory veto on Democrats' School Funding Bill. They say that Rauner and Republicans are hostile to Chicago schoolchildren.
Has Democrat rhetoric on school-funding changed at all in the past 40 years? What's next for...
GOP lawmakers: CPS receives preferential treatment in school funding bill
By Cole Lauterbach | Illinois News Network
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At the center of the school funding argument is the preferential treatment that Gov. Bruce Rauner and Republican lawmakers say Chicago...
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Illinois lawmakers agreed to almost a dozen new pension laws this year. But none of them will address the state's biggest pension problem: The costs.
Of the ten new pension laws that lawmakers agreed to, just three deal...
