Fresh from the success of his property tax freeze bill passing the House during the last day of the 'lame duck' session, the 97th District's representative said Illinoisans can expect real property tax relief by the end of the new General Assembly.
Though village trustees say it isn't, last fall's approved 375 percent pay raise for Orland Park's mayor bears some of the hallmarks of a pay spike for a larger pension, which the vice president of a Chicago-area think tank says taxpayer should be wary of.
GOP legislators in Springfield got their marching orders in November's general election to keep pushing for reform, the newly named House Republican Conference chairman, a lawmaker from Kendall County, said during a recent interview.
Invoking an old wives’ tale referring to ambivalent, “average" amphibians, the Chicago Tribune recently created an analogy between disinterested Illinois taxpayers and a hypothetical pot of frog stew to illustrate the state’s simmering fiscal status.
A U.S. Census Bureau report released this week reveals that between July 2015 and July 2016, Illinois lost 114,144 residents -- a net loss of 37,508 when arrivals are factored in -- a record high for the state.