'Occupy Chicago' Group Protests Tax Breaks For CME, CBOE
About "Occupy Chicago" 100 protesters marched on the offices of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and legislative leaders downtown Tuesday.
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About "Occupy Chicago" 100 protesters marched on the offices of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and legislative leaders downtown Tuesday.
Sears and Chicago have gone hand-in-hand longer than anyone living today has been alive, and now, the State of Illinois is working hard to keep Sears from moving out of state.
Gov. Pat Quinn is about to square off again against one of his favorite targets, ComEd, which wants to raise electric rates.
A voice from the West fired up Illinois Democrats on their day at the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday.
Gov. Pat Quinn flexed his veto power Wednesday by rewriting legislation in a way that would end the long practice of letting Illinois legislators hand out scholarships to state universities.
The bulldozers and jackhammers will keep moving on Illinois roadways, thanks to an eleventh-hour agreement that averted a shutdown.
The state Senate has passed the DREAM Act, which would put those young people within reach of such programs as College Illinois, allowing them to save for their higher education.
Both Republicans and Democrats agree that workers compensation reform is a serious issue, but a proposal to change the system has failed to pass the state Senate.
Illinois State Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) is seeking a $1 per pack increase in the state cigarette tax to generate funds for a major public works program.
Gov Pat Quinn said Wednesday that 38 people he appointed to state jobs would continue working, even though Senate President John Cullerton said they should lose their jobs because lawmakers never signed off.
Gov. Pat Quinn is defending his support for a massive income tax increase, saying the state was facing a crisis and "we had to take decisive action."
Illinois lawmakers left Springfield on Friday without voting on a major income tax hike as Democratic leaders tried to drum up support for a plan aimed at solving the state's budget mess.
Gov. Pat Quinn and legislative leaders in Springfield have been meeting repeatedly this week, trying to hammer out an agreement that would raise the state's income tax in an effort to solve a massive budget deficit.
Democratic state lawmakers are moving closer to a possible vote on an income tax hike during the final days of the current legislative session.
