High cigarette taxes give Illinoisans a financial reason to sneak in smokes from other states. Illinois is among the 10 ...

Small Business Saturday offers a reason to be extra thankful: businesses with fewer than 20 employees have been the only ones ...

The Chicago Teachers Union is pushing to expand the 20 “sustainable community schools” in the district. But the model doesn’t ...

Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson said state lawmakers need to step in and help fix public pensions. Pension debt is the ...

Over 1 million Illinois families will put turkey on the table this Thanksgiving with the help of federal food assistance, ...

A new Cook County state’s attorney inherits crime problems aggravated by her predecessor, Kim Foxx. Eileen O’Neill Burke ...

The American Federation of Teachers’ recent federal filing showed just 36% of the national union’s spending was on ...

Chicago’s 2025 budget has a nearly $1 billion hole. Mayor Brandon Johnson has only proposed tax hikes. But when personnel ...

Public records show the Chicago Teachers Union and other union entities pay Stacy Davis Gates a very healthy salary. But ...

The Chicago Teachers Union wails about schools closing, but it is the union’s actions that have been solely responsible for ...

They call it “inclusionary zoning,” but in reality the government mandate for a portion of developments to be “affordable” ...

The Illinois Education Association is the largest statewide teachers union in Illinois. But less than 15% of its in spending ...