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,...
Proposed GOP tax increase would continue outmigration and backfire politically, some warn
By Greg Bishop | Illinois News Network
John Spataro | Illinois News Network 6/16/2017
If Republicans sign off on tax increases, some are warning there would be...
Audit panel reviewing state lease deal that some call an affront to taxpayers
By Michael Carroll and Greg Bishop
May 26, 2017
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Mike Hoffman, acting director of the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, testified Thursday...
The new budget plan coming out of the Illinois Senate does little to nothing to reform the state’s reckless spending and financial mismanagement, but does plenty to hurt state taxpayers.
Illinois Senate members have a drafted a new budget plan...
Madigan rules Illinois with an iron grip. And failure to follow through on a favor can come with dire consequences.
A new batch of emails released by Wikileaks Oct. 12 reveal Hillary Clinton’s team attempted to change the date of...
FOOD FIGHT IN CHICAGO
September 6, 2016
Dan Proft and Austin Berg talk AFSCME, Rahm's "crack down" on food trucks and the mass exodus out of Chicago.
Podcast: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/radio/food-fight-in-chicago/
Dan Proft and Austin Berg break down what comes next in the state’s partial impasse...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EI9gXZaTgs
Ragan Freitag and Don Gould serve on the Will County Board Republican Caucus. They helped pass a property tax reduction last year and will be voting for a property tax decrease this year. As elected officials they want what...
Illinois Policy 10/27/2016
Gov. Bruce Rauner has ordered executive agencies to review all their regulations for necessity, clarity and statutory authority and to mark for repeal or revision rules that don’t meet those criteria.
Small businesses and would-be entrepreneurs have a...
In Illinois, the idea of “compromise” has become synonymous with “passing the buck.”
Whether it was former governors Jim Edgar, George Ryan, Rod Blagojevich or Pat Quinn, politicians always seem to have ended up striking deals with House Speaker Mike...
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