Democrats in the Illinois Senate filed a bill to remove student academic growth data as a measure for teacher evaluations.

Bills filed in the Illinois General Assembly would lay the groundwork to close charter schools or place more restrictions on ...

Opening Reverence Coffee was a joint venture. My husband is the one who really dove head-on into coffee. I, of course, like ...

Chicago City Council members heard from Illinois Policy Institute researchers as they considered allowing more commercial ...

Illinois families will pay the second-highest property tax rate in the nation in 2025, spending more than double what the ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s 2026 budget includes record spending, cuts to economic development and overreliance on short-term ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s record $55.2 billion budget for 2026 relies on more than $1.55 billion in newly increased revenue ...

Illinois ability to keep its residents is third from the bottom. Only California and New York have more people moving to ...

Illinois had a prime opportunity with increased revenues and COVID relief funds to balance the budget. Instead, the ...

A new bill would repeal an outdated Illinois business tax. The franchise tax is tough to calculate, most businesses don’t owe ...

Illinois ranks 44th in the country on entrepreneurship and economic growth, which stops people from getting ahead.

Members of the Illinois Senate Pensions Committee heard from pension administrators and government unions about the need for ...