Lax rules, poor oversight let millions of taxpayer dollars be used for foreign travel – including safaris and camel rides – ...

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Chicago aldermen for the first time pushed through their own budget, rejecting the mayor’s effort to impose a job-killing ...

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The owners of Kevin McCallister’s house from the “Home Alone” movie will pay nearly $52,000 in property taxes this year.

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The information sector remains a bright spot in an otherwise challenging Illinois job market, but unemployment has pulled ...

The Illinois Supreme Court has been asked to hear a lawsuit challenging where citizens can file constitutional challenges to ...

Just 10 cents of every dollar the National Education Association spent in 2025 was on representing teachers. Politics and ...