Progress Illinois

Last week we highlighted
a fairly simple policy fix that could generate a significant amount of
additional revenue for the Prairie State without raising taxes. If the
legislature would just cap the amount retailers receive for simply
collecting sales taxes, the state ...

This morning, David Axelrod appeared on Fox Chicago Sunday and had some notable remarks on both the local and national fronts.  He said that President-elect Barack Obama plans to stay out of Prairie State politics once in the White House and doesn't plan on being "a ...

It’s still unclear what Barack Obama’s Office of Urban Policy will do. On his campaign website, the president-elect makes the amorphous promise
that whoever holds the position will “develop a strategy for
metropolitan America and … ensure that all federal dollars ...

What does Rep. Mark Kirk have against the American worker? Back in June, the North Shore Republican initially voted down a federal extension of unemployment benefits, claiming that people who had worked as briefly as two weeks could game the system and collect 52 weeks of ...