The emptiest Chicago Public Schools building held just 3% of its capacity and cost nearly $55,000 per student.

Chicago businesses reported the lowest recorded employment score since May 2009, according to the Chicago Business Barometer.

That price increase shoots up to 49.5% when looking at the past eight years. A typical Illinois home was valued at $187,874 ...

Illinois’ opaque budget process handed $12 million to NASCAR. Fast and furious is no way to treat taxpayers’ money. Illinois’ 2026 budget included $12 million for NASCAR, but the cash was handed out ...

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.

Illinois local governments have been denied more than $10.9 billion in state income tax revenue since fiscal year 2012 ...