Moodys: Illinois still could be downgraded to junk status, even with budget, tax hikes
By Dan McCaleb and Greg Bishop | Illinois News Network
7/6/2017
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ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
Moody's Investors Services might still downgrade Illinois' credit rating to junk...
WFLD Fox 32 Chicago President and General Manager Dennis Welsh did not mince words about the perilous place Illinois’ growing pension crisis has left the state in during a recently aired editorial on the network in which he predicted...
Village of Plainfield Committee of the Whole met 7 p.m. Monday, September 09. Read more..
Nearly 5,000 bills die in Madigan’s Rules Committee
Outgoing state lawmaker says measures that did pass didn’t address pension debt, high property taxes
By Greg Bishop | Illinois News Network
State Rep. Robert Martwick, D-Chicago, and state Rep. Jeanne Ives,...
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IL Senator McConchie Outlines the Simplicity of the Budget Crisis
Written By John Biver Two years after the “temporary” income tax expired, rapacious Springfield lawmakers are once again working toward raising our taxes, supposedly in order to solve the state’s...
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Rep. Jeanne Ives attacks Rauner’s weak right flank
Republican state Rep. Jeanne Ives, of Wheaton, speaks during a ceremony at the Pritzker Military Museum and Library on Sept. 27, 2017, in the Loop. (Alyssa Pointer / Chicago Tribune)
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17% OF ILLINOIS HOMES ARE SERIOUSLY UNDERWATER
Madelyn Harwood
/ JOBS + GROWTH
MAY 11, 2017
Illinois’ sky-high property tax rates and lackluster economic growth have aggravated the state’s housing crisis.
Nearly 17 percent of Illinois homes with mortgages were seriously underwater as of...
Illinois budget deal penalizes cities that impose sales taxes
By Michael Carroll | Illinois News Network
Aug 30, 2017
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ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
A little-discussed provision of the Illinois state budget deal approved this summer is putting a crimp in the...
Village of Romeoville Board of Trustees met 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, September 4. Read more..
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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...
