The average retired career state employee in Illinois was paid $93,558 in pension benefits last year. That’s $24,538 more ...

Charter school contracts can be renewed for up to 10 years, but the Chicago Teachers Union has been pressuring for as few as ...

Illinois General Assembly members raced the clock to pass legislation. Of the 416 bills sent to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk ...

Government unions already hold tremendous power over taxpayers in Illinois. Three bills heading to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk ...

Illinois General Assembly this session, but only a small fraction passed both houses. Of those, 86% were introduced by ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker had the power to strike $237 million in pork-barrel projects that benefit only Democratic lawmakers’ ...

Lawmakers quietly added a fund intended to comply with federal rules about pensions for newer state workers. If it works, ...

For most bills filed in Springfield, taxpayers will have to guess at how much more will be demanded of them. Illinois General Assembly members only worried about costs 10 times for 3,859 of their ...

Illinois is No. 1 in the nation for property taxes, an uncomfortable reality for Rantoul homeowner Yohna Hornbuckle. His ...

Seven years after they were freed from being forced to pay unions, at least 267 of Illinois’ 866 school districts still have ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison but his allies now run the Illinois House ...