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Halbrook: 'Amendment 1 is scheduled to be on Illinois’ Nov. 8 ballot'
Representative Brad Halbrook voiced his concerns about bringing awareness of what’ll be on the ballot in Illinois’ Nov. 8 general election.
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As population plummets, Rep. Caulkins calls on voters to restore Illinois
State House Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) thinks it is time for Illinois voters – at least the ones who remain in the state with the greatest population loss in the U.S. over the last decade – to start taking some accountability.
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From Macon Reporter
When it rains, it pours – New Illinois taxes may include one on precipitation
Cash-strapped Illinois taxpayers could soon be hit by yet another deluge of levies that supporters of the plan insist are imperative to keeping the state safe and above water.
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From Prairie State Wire
New session will reveal how serious Pritzker is about independent mapmaking
All eyes will be on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker at the start of the new session to see if the Democratic leader has any intention of making good on his pledge to bring fair electoral mapmaking to the state.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinois property taxes continue to stifle housing market, IPI reports
Housing sales in Illinois continue to lag below the national average as the state's rising property taxes have all but crippled the market.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinois’ pension debt remains worst in the nation
Illinois’ record-setting 2017 income tax hike has done little to slow the state’s rising pension costs, leaving state taxpayers on the hook for nearly $250 billion in unfunded public pension liability.
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From Prairie State Wire
Motorists get no relief from periodic efforts to eliminate Illinois' toll system, IPI reports
The prospect of Illinois' tollways becoming “freeways” has proven to be an agonizingly slow process that still has not come close to fruition.
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From Prairie State Wire
State spending 36 percent of money allocated for education on pension costs
Illinois Policy recently released a new study detailing how pension costs are negatively impacting budgets throughout the state’s school districts.
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'Same negative trends' affecting Illinois property values, state politics, Champaign activist says
Former Champaign County Board member Scott Tapley fears the potential outcome of Illinois’ dwindling home values combined with the state's rising property taxes.
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From Prairie State Wire
IPI report illustrates just how unsustainable are Illinois' broken pension systems
Over the last 30 days, Illinois’ already overtaxed state-run pension systems have added at least 651 retired government workers that are projected to average $1.3 million in lifetime pension benefits, according to an Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) report.
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'Springfield can't get out of its own way,' laments Rep. Caulkins on Illinois' property tax crisis
Illinois state Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) fumes about the way the state legislature in Springfield has become the enemy in the eyes of people it is supposed to serve.
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Illinois digging its own grave with irresponsible policies and projects, cautions Rep. Halbrook
Illinois state Rep. Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville) wonders how long Illinois can survive with policies like the new $85 billion state budget just signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker setting the tone for the way the state operates.
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Activist hopes lawmaker pay raises 'wakes people up' so voters do not 'keep putting in Democrats'
Rich Berner, a conservative activist in Vermillion County, considers the pay raise that legislators in Springfield are set to receive from the passage of the new $40 billion state budget as a payout many of them are due for their brokered alliance with Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
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High-paid administrators in Greater C-U oppose Illinois school efficiency bill
More than 130 Illinois public school administrators who signed witness slips in opposition to a bipartisan bill that aims to consolidate Illinois school districts make six-figure salaries, according to an analysis compiled this week.
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From Prairie State Wire
Federal probe into Pritzker's 'scheme to defraud' could land him in unfortunate company, IPI reports
With news that he is now under federal review, newly elected Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker finds himself in dubious company.
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Rep. Caulkins puts trust in 'fair tax' voters who are 'informed about all this terrible legislation'
Newly elected state Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) is starting to feel that all the hard work of Republican lawmakers in Springfield may pay off after all.
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From Prairie State Wire
Coming up short: Illinois Policy Institute picks apart Pritzker's 'false promise'
An Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) review finds Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s new progressive-tax plan might not be everything it’s being promoted to be.
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From DuPage Policy Journal
Only 3 other states, District of Columbia have $15 minimum wage
If a current Senate bill clears the House and is signed into law, Illinois will join three other states and the District of Columbia in soon paying a minimum wage of $15 per hour.
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From Prairie State Wire
IPI: FBI's secret Madigan recordings in affidavit reveal nothing new about speaker's operations
Illinois's powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago), earlier today revealed to be a target in the same FBI investigation that led to an extortion indictment against a Chicago alderman, is not accused of anything new, a think tank reported.
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From Chicago City Wire
Madigan funding ensures key votes, Illinois Policy Institute reports
House Speaker Mike Madigan has provided a combined $15 million in funding to dozens of state representatives currently holding office, the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) reports.