Progress Illinois

Inspired by the Showdown in Chicago last fall, liberal activists from Iowa are looking to an untapped source for plugging their state's budget hole: big banks and corporate giants.

It's a great day for the Midwest. In a unanimous decision this morning, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld the right of same-sex couples to marry.
Reviewing a district court decision allowing six gay couples to wed,
the high court ruled that Iowa’s definition of marriage, which ...

The Chi-Town Daily News reports on yet more evidence that former Republic Windows owner Richard Gillman is not a very trustworthy businessman.

While the abrupt closure of their factory last December caused quite an ordeal for the Republic workers, it seems pretty clear ...

Remember when the Republic Windows owners skipped town to open a new plant in Iowa without covering their Chicago workers’ severance pay and unused vacation days? Well, that experiment didn’t last long. The AP explains:

A window manufacturing company in Red Oak is ...

The Illinois capital plan
remains a major unfinished piece of business that state legislators hope to
push through this spring. But with the impending Senate impeachment
trial, it’s hard to imagine
there is going to be much movement on this front in the near future. So
...

As the Republic Windows sit-in grabbed the nation's attention early last week, the Chi-Town Daily News discovered that the Republic owners had purchased a window factory in Red Oak, Iowa at the same time that they decided to abruptly shutter the Chicago plant.  Since ...

Ever since the dust settled in Postville, IA following the historic immigration raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant there in May, some have been wondering: "What was the cost?"

The Des Moines Register has been working for months to get the final ...