The Chicago Teachers Union has shirked its own rules for years, causing members to sue the union to release a required annual ...

Students returned to their Chicago public schools on Aug. 18. The most recent test data available for Chicago students shows ...

Students in Illinois are steadily returning to class across Illinois’ 866 school districts and 3,835 schools. The state’s ...

Chicago’s municipal pension is one of the worst-funded pension systems in the nation despite sky-high taxes dedicated to ...

The national Educational Choice for Children Act creates a federal tax-credit scholarship program for both public and private ...

Benefit programs in Illinois punish people for hard work. An estimated 710,000 Illinoisans have intentionally held themselves ...

Illinois was just ranked last in the nation for financial transparency. The state’s chronic delays, audit failures and ...

Chicago Public Schools has 275 buildings that are too empty. On average, over 1-in-3 school desks is empty. The Chicago ...

Illinois General Assembly members filed 31,011 pages of amendments to bills in the last 24 hours of the 2025 regular session.

Tax increment financing districts divert public property tax dollars with little oversight, letting cities keep special ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s extensive out-of-state travel raises questions about whether he’s prioritizing national ...

When a Cook County business successfully appeals their property taxes, the county just shifts that burden to homeowners. This meant an extra $2 billion in residential property taxes instead of a lower ...