December 31, 2016
To address the city’s worsening financial crises, Chicago politicians turned up the dial on their usual answer to budgetary woes: raising taxes.
Being a Chicago taxpayer got a lot pricier in 2016.
To make up for decades of financial...
With the continuing battle in Springfield for a state budget, and the continuing need for true reform in the State of Illinois, it is increasingly difficult for any local property tax payer to understand where their money goes and...
Local governments raise sales tax in Illinois
January 3, 2017
2017 brings a slew of new sales tax hikes for 20 municipalities in Illinois.
Effective Jan. 1, 20 Illinois cities and local governments increased local sales taxes, according to the Illinois Department...
Americans saying goodbye to high-tax states
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State and local lawmakers take note: a growing number of American workers, business owners and retirees are showing their disgust with sky-high taxes by voting...
Why a budget won’t fix Illinois
January 5, 2017
Pension costs alone now consume a quarter of the Illinois state budget.
Did you feel it?
As 2016 expired at midnight Dec. 31, so too did Illinois’ stopgap budget. That six-month spending plan pushed...
Illinois House Democrats re-elected state Rep. Mike Madigan to his longtime post as House Speaker Jan. 11.
Madigan is now set to become the longest-serving House speaker in modern U.S. history. By the end of his two-year term in 2019,...
Tribune: Illinois residents aren't frogs, won't remain in Madigan's boiling pot
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Will County Gazette | Jan 9, 2017
Invoking an old wives’ tale referring to ambivalent, “average" amphibians, the Chicago Tribune recently created an analogy between disinterested Illinois taxpayers and...
State Representative Mark Batinick
For Immediate Release Contact: Debbie Kraulidis
January 9, 2017 (815) 254-0000
Rep. Batinick advances bill to enact property tax freeze
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois House Revenue & Finance Committee today approved legislation filed by State Representative Mark...
Democrats control the Illinois General Assembly and can easily pass their party’s legislation through the House and Senate – and can block any spending or economic reform Gov. Bruce Rauner proposes.
But the majority party holds another source of power that...
Residents say new industrial park would 'destroy' Lockport
John Basile, owner of the Big Run Wolf Ranch, stands at the edge of his six acre site in Lockport. Prologis, an industrial developer, has proposed building five warehouses in the cornfield...
