Will County Gazette

OPINION: Legal reform can help small businesses breathe

By Raj Pillai | May 3, 2025

As a small business owner in Plainfield, I know how rewarding it is to build something from the ground up. But in Illinois, the path to success has become far more difficult than it should be.

Op-ed: Legislators must help small employers thrive instead of taxing them out of business

By Raj Pillai | Jan 23, 2023

As a member of the small business community in Plainfield, I am deeply concerned with the state's increasingly cavalier attitude toward raising taxes and fees on firms like mine through ever-expanding and burdensome regulation.