I’m from the West Side of Chicago, the Austin area to be specific. There were lots of summer programs in my area and the one ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted of using his office to run an illegal enterprise. Madigan was the ...

Corruption in Illinois is on a weekly basis. The state averaged more than one corruption conviction per week from 1983-2023, ...

Illinois leaders have built a legacy of massive government spending deficits, extortionate taxes, marauding criminals and ...

Illinois companies announced 2,342 mass layoffs in January 2025, according to state reports. More than 9-in-10 job cuts ...

Almost 10,000 bills were filed in the 103rd Illinois General Assembly that just ended. Of those, only 44 calculated how much ...

Lilly Rossi is an intern with the Illinois Policy Institute. She recently graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor’s in Political Science and Communications.

Illinois’ five state-run retirement systems need $16.8 billion in funding for the coming fiscal year, but state lawmakers ...

When local governments must comply with a new state law, it often increases costs. Those costs are passed on to the taxpayer.

Government unions posed threats to public welfare that were recognized by founders of the labor movement and by progressive icon Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those threats have become reality, with ...

Two major programs that would help more than 200,000 Illinois children are currently moving in Washington, D.C. First, U.S. Senators just introduced the Educational Choice for Children Act, or ECCA.

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