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46 towns have passed a grocery tax. Is your town next? Already 46 towns around Illinois have voted to impose a 1% grocery tax in 2026. Other Illinoisans will start to save 1% on groceries when the ...
Illinois needs responsible Tier 2 pension reform
2024年11月14日 · The concern arises because Tier 2’s maximum pensionable salary is growing more slowly than the Social Security wage base. In 2011, both were set at $106,800, but by 2024, the Social Security ...
Illinois’ new budget ends statewide grocery tax
2024年5月29日 · The new state budget eliminates the 1% grocery tax, placing Illinois with 37 other states by 2026. But the bill gives municipalities the option to implement their own tax without voter approval.
Mass layoffs hit 14.7K Illinoisans in 2024, most from business …
2025年1月15日 · State reports show 14,723 Illinoisans lost their jobs because of mass layoffs during 2024, with two-thirds resulting from business closures. Illinois companies announced 14,723 mass layoffs during ...
‘Millionaire tax’ being backed by Illinois voters
2024年11月5日 · The “millionaire tax” was being OK’d by Illinois voters, with 60.3% voting “yes” on the advisory question about raising taxes on residents earning over $1 million a year to fund property ...
What Illinois can learn from Florida’s emphasis on early literacy
2024年11月21日 · What Illinois can learn from Florida’s emphasis on early literacy. Florida state lawmakers began mandating science-based literacy education in the early 2000s.
House unanimously passes bill to let Illinois parents leave teens …
2022年3月3日 · The Illinois House unanimously passed a bill to eliminate the nation’s strictest standard for how old children must be to be left home alone, now set at age 14. The bill lets parents decide when ...
Illinois pension crisis would devour ‘millionaire tax’
2024年10月29日 · Illinois needs to spend $4.9 billion more annually to pay for pensions, but the “millionaire tax” would only raise an estimated $3-$4.3 billion. That’s too little for the pension bills and ...
First Illinois voters to be asked overwhelmingly back public …
2024年11月5日 · Barrington Township became the first local government in Illinois to back changing the Illinois Constitution so public pensions can be brought under control. While essentially an opinion poll, the ...