When a Cook County business successfully appeals their property taxes, the county just shifts that burden to homeowners. This ...

Tax increment financing districts divert public property tax dollars with little oversight, letting cities keep special ...

Chicago Public Schools has 275 buildings that are too empty. On average, over 1-in-3 school desks is empty. The Chicago ...

Chicago’s municipal pension is one of the worst-funded pension systems in the nation despite sky-high taxes dedicated to ...

Students in Illinois are steadily returning to class across Illinois’ 866 school districts and 3,835 schools. The state’s ...

Benefit programs in Illinois punish people for hard work. An estimated 710,000 Illinoisans have intentionally held themselves ...

With most property taxes going to local public schools, Illinois parents and taxpayers should know how well third- through ...

The national Educational Choice for Children Act creates a federal tax-credit scholarship program for both public and private ...

Illinois General Assembly members filed 31,011 pages of amendments to bills in the last 24 hours of the 2025 regular session.

Less than 22% of voters approve of the Chicago Teachers Union. No surprise, considering the scandals and radical dogma pushed ...

Illinois lost 218 businesses to other states in 2023, part of an acceleration to triple the rate of what losses were before ...

Illinois was just ranked last in the nation for financial transparency. The state’s chronic delays, audit failures and ...