That price increase shoots up to 49.5% when looking at the past eight years. A typical Illinois home was valued at $187,874 in November 2018, according to Zillow’s Home Value Index, which tracks the ...

Illinois’ opaque budget process handed $12 million to NASCAR. Fast and furious is no way to treat taxpayers’ money.

The Illinois General Assembly failed to pass a full budget for fiscal year 2016 and only passed a stopgap budget for fiscal year 2017. State politicians have done nothing to stop Illinois’ unpaid ...

Illinois’ hidden budgeting process let lawmakers hand out 2,815 grants, including $7 million to move the University of ...

Using taxpayer dollars intended to educate children, over 600 Chicago Public Schools staffers exploited lax rules to take ...

At least 49 tax hikes under Gov. J.B. Pritzker have driven state spending to record highs, even as Illinois’ economic growth ...

Whether your vice is drinking, tobacco, cannabis or gambling, Illinois is enjoying $3.47 billion from taxing it.

Illinois progressives want to reimagine capitalism and hand out free money with the tax dollars you worked for.

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

The nation’s longest-serving legislative speaker, a state senator and a former Cook County commissioner were on Illinois’ too-long list of corrupt politicians.

Lilly Rossi is a Policy Research Assistant at the Illinois Policy Institute. Previously, she worked for the Institute as a Policy Intern. Lilly graduated from the University of Illinois ...