Budget + Tax
Final Thanksgiving with statewide grocery tax, but your town?
Illinois families are preparing their final Thanksgiving dinner with the state’s 1% grocery tax. But will your municipality bring the tax back starting Jan. 1? This Thanksgiving is the last one for Illinois’ statewide grocery tax, but…
Illinois House speaker gets $40M sports complex for…
Backroom deals produced lots of pork in the state budget, including a $40-million sports…
Illinois shoppers face sales tax hit
Holiday shoppers are eager to spend this year. Illinois is overly eager to tax them. …
Record Illinois Thanksgiving traffic paying record gas…
Thanksgiving travel will set a record in Illinois and in the U.S. Illinois drivers will pay…
Illinois lawmakers again push disguised ‘retirement…
Illinois voters soundly rejected a progressive state income tax because it was a path to tax…
Illinois halts federal tax credits intended to boost business
Illinois state lawmakers are severing new federal business tax cuts. Their quest to keep more cash will cost the state in business competitiveness. Federal leaders made business tax cuts intended to boost the economy, but Illinois state…
Transit fares frozen as Chicago drivers hit with…
The transit rescue plan freezes fares, raises tolls, hikes sales taxes and diverts road funds…
Chicago’s high sales taxes about to increase to No. 1…
Chicago-area sales taxes were already No. 2 in the U.S., but new taxing authority handed to…
Cook County property tax bills finally getting mailed,…
Cook County leaders announced the second installment of property tax bills will be mailed by…
Chicago budgets $210M for vacant jobs
Chicago has thousands of job vacancies that receive city funding, leaving taxpayers to pay…
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