Click here to view this ITEF Comment as a PDF. “The so-called ‘education reforms’ passed by the Democrat-controlled Illinois General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Patrick Quinn (D) are a sham and...
View as PDF April 12, 2011, marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the War Between the States. Prior to the fall of Fort Sumter, few Americans North or South wanted war. On...
View as PDF April 12, 2011, marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the War Between the States. It was a war Abraham Lincoln pursued not to free slaves but to enslave free...
CHICAGO- Retired Illinois judges are enjoying some of the most lavish pensions of all Illinois pensioners with the top 100 judicial pensions each in excess of $147,000. While Illinois leadership dabbles with pension reform,...
CHICAGO–Figures released today, Wednesday, Feb. 23, by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, headquartered in Washington, DC, show that Illinois’ state-local tax burden increased sharply in comparison to the 49 other states, despite lower total amounts...
View as PDF There are many different estimates as to the number of casualties in Lincoln’s War Between the States. If one also counts civilian dead, total casualties are probably well over 660,000. Ken...
CHICAGO–The Illinois corporate income tax rate is not 4.8% as some politicians and media writers have erroneously reported, but actually 7.3%. While the base rate is 4.8%, a constitutional amendment passed in 1980 added...
Led by House Speaker and Chicago machine boss Michael Madigan and Gov. Patrick Quinn, Illinois Democrats are about to commit political suicide by voting for a gargantuan 75% state income tax increase. Unless the...
By Dennis Constant Jim Edgar must bear much of the blame for the present mess in Illinois’ floundering government employee pension system, which is literally making pension millionaires of some of its recipients, including...
CHICAGO- The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is underway with a project that would extend the Red Line’s reach past its current ending point at 95th and Dan Ryan to three miles farther south, at...
