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  • Sangamon County appoints board members

    by Lhalie Castillo | Dec 3, 2016

    The Sangamon County Board met Oct. 11 to appoint board members.

  • Springfield Committee of the Whole authorizes various contracts

    by Lhalie Castillo | Dec 3, 2016

    The Springfield Committee of the Whole met Oct. 25 to authorize various contracts.

  • Dems called on to end Madigan's reign as House speaker

    by Carol Ostrow | Dec 4, 2016

    “If America is two countries, Illinois is two states,” the Peoria Journal Star said recently in an editorial, censuring House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) and attributing the state’s “abysmal” financial status to continued ineptitude and duplicity in the General Assembly.

  • Report: State's pension debt soars 17 percent to $130 billion this year

    by Carol Ostrow | Dec 4, 2016

    Already struggling under a many-tiered fiscal burden, Illinois taxpayers are now confronting incontrovertible evidence of serious fiscal setbacks in their state as a new report this week revealed staggering amounts of pension debt and escalating red ink.

  • Illinois loses 10,000 manufacturing jobs in past year

    by Ruth de Jauregui | Dec 4, 2016

    The manufacturing industry in Illinois continues to show job losses, despite October's net gain of 1,600 jobs.

  • Election losses have taken some shine off Madigan's rose, analyst says

    by Karen Kidd | Dec 4, 2016

    Voting for state Rep. Mike Madigan to serve yet another term as House Speaker may be more difficult for Democrats this time, according to the screenwriter for a documentary about the Chicago Democrat.

  • Ives bill would give state workers control of their pension nest eggs

    by Hoang Tran | Dec 4, 2016

    Illinois is in a pension debt crisis, according to a report from Illinois' Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (CGFA), which said the state is facing what could amount to $130 billion in unfunded pension liability, with only an estimated 37.6 percent of all pensions being funded.

  • Rauner veto of automatic voter registration bill stands after House vote

    by Ruth de Jauregui | Dec 4, 2016

    The Illinois House failed to garner the votes needed to overturn Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of Senate Bill 250, which would have automatically registered Illinois residents to vote when they make government transactions, such as renewing a driver's license.

  • Proposal would replace pensions with 401(k)-style plans for new public hires

    by Karen Kidd | Dec 4, 2016

    With Illinois' state pension liability 17 percent more than it was last year, the vice president of a Chicago-based think tank recently said that 401(k)-style plans for public employees would go a long way toward easing the pension crisis.

  • Rauner outlines details for second stopgap budget

    by Ruth de Jauregui | Dec 4, 2016

    Gov. Bruce Rauner recently took to social media to lay out his terms for another stopgap budget.

  • Watchdog group slams state's FOIA system as records request drags on

    by Carol Ostrow | Dec 4, 2016

    Alerted to withheld information, the Illinois consumer group Edgar County Watchdogs recently publicized its continuing concerns regarding a 4-year-old conviction of two local policemen whom the investigative outfit believes may have allowed another to escape justice.

  • Oberweis: Projected state budget deficit likely tells only half the story

    by Hoang Tran | Dec 5, 2016

    Illinois may be in even bigger financial trouble than what official projections have suggested.

  • Madigan nears milestone, faces opposition as he runs for 17th speaker term

    by Carol Ostrow | Dec 5, 2016

    After a year of many changes, something may wind up remaining as it has been for decades in the General Assembly.

  • Lawmaker: Rising property taxes in Madigan's financial interest

    by Ruth de Jauregui | Dec 5, 2016

    The Illinois House will elect a new House speaker in January. While few discuss it, the primary candidate remains Mike Madigan (D-Chicago), who has held the position for 31 of his 45 years in the House.

  • Pleasant Plains CUSD board accepts resignations

    by Lhalie Castillo | Dec 7, 2016

    The Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 8 Board of Education met Aug. 22 to accept resignations.

  • Springfield PSD receives science curriculum update

    by Lhalie Castillo | Dec 7, 2016

    The Springfield Public School District #186 Board of Education met Oct. 3 to receive an update on the science curriculum.

  • Ball-Chatham SD board accepts equipment donation

    by Lhalie Castillo | Dec 7, 2016

    The Ball-Chatham School District Board of Education met Sept. 26 to accept an equipment donation.

  • Ball-Chatham SD board to reduce costs

    by Lhalie Castillo | Dec 7, 2016

    The Ball-Chatham Board of Education met Sept. 22 to determine how to reduce costs.

  • Ball-Chatham SD board hires faculty, staff

    by Lhalie Castillo | Dec 7, 2016

    The Ball-Chatham School District Board of Education met Oct. 24 to hire faculty and staff.

  • Trust issues doomed Chicago Public Schools pension bailout bill, reporter claims

    by Karen Kidd | Dec 8, 2016

    The reporter's eye view of the apparent disagreement between lawmakers that killed a $215 million bill to bail out Chicago Public Schools' pension fund at the end of 2016 observed the growing acrimony in Springfield over the proposal, a journalist said during the aftermath.

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