Chicago Teachers Union allies were losing most Chicago School Board elections. CTU spent more than $1 million on its ...

The “millionaire tax” was being OK’d by Illinois voters, with 62.4% voting “yes” on the advisory question about raising taxes on residents earning over $1 million a year to fund property tax relief.

Barrington Township became the first local government in Illinois to back changing the Illinois Constitution so public ...

By 1980, financial mismanagement led Chicago Public Schools to lose its ability to borrow money, to miss multiple payrolls ...

No Election Day noise. Just results for the issues close to home for Illinois' and Chicago's freedom-minded voters.

No Election Day noise. Just results for the issues close to home for Illinois' and Chicago's freedom-minded voters. The ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget proposes a nearly $1 billion deficit. High personnel and pension costs have ...

Nearly 2 million Illinoisans – or more than 1-in-7 – received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in July 2024 ...

Chicago Public Schools third- through eighth-grade state test scores increased in 2024, with reading finally surpassing 2019 ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is banking on $300 million in new property taxes from residents in his latest budget. He and ...

Part of the idea is to have people in many different professions who are knowledgeable about the principles of ...

The statewide Illinois job market outpaced the national average. But 13 of 15 metro areas continued to have higher ...