U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have drawn the ire of national commentators for suggesting that a U.S. circuit court nominee is unsuitable for the position because of her religious faith and how it could affect her legal interpretations, according to the Illinois Republican Party.
Dean and Senior Officer Dimitri Azar was the highest-earning individual at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016, with total compensation reaching $750,239 according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of Illinois Board of Higher Education data.
Northeastern Illinois University President Sharon Hahs was the highest-earning individual at the institution in 2016, with total compensation reaching $291,114 according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of Illinois Board of Higher Education data.
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Angela Henderson was the highest-earning individual at Chicago State University in 2016, with total compensation reaching $215,625, according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of Illinois Board of Higher Education data.
If state taxpayers bail out the beleaguered, $10.1 billion in debt Chicago Public Schools' pension fund, they won't merely be covering cash shortfalls for teacher retirements.
Gov. Bruce Rauner's new communications specialist has garnered widespread criticism following recent comments about abortion, and now anti-abortion groups are weighing in on the controversy.
Governor Bruce Rauner should be lauded for hiring "intelligent, diverse, and well-rounded" staff, says Illinois Right-to-Life Executive Director Emily Troscinski.
Without a taxpayer bailout, Chicago’s police pension fund won’t have enough money to pay benefits to retirees in 2021, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.
State taxpayers spend $40 million per year subsidizing Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), but fewer than five percent of its students manage to graduate on time.
Taxpayers in the the City of Chicago's seventeen wealthiest zip codes would pay an additional $473 million in state income taxes if a tax hike measure passed by the Democrat-controlled Illinois State Senate becomes law.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) received $6,632 per-pupil in state and federal subsidies in 2016, ranking 47th among 291 school districts in the Chicagoland area.
The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) have blown their annual budgets in 15 of the past 15 years by a collective $6.6 billion, amassing debt to continually increase spending on operations while district student enrollment has steadily fallen.
In 2014, Illinois State Comptroller Susana Mendoza and her husband paid $471,000 for their newly-renovated 3,500 square-foot three bedroom in Portage Park, on Chicago’s far northwest side.
Some 70 percent of City of Chicago employees earn more than six figures, according to an analysis of Illinois municipal compensation by Local Government Information Services (LGIS).
In sixteen square blocks of Chicago’s West Side Austin neighborhood, between Cicero Ave. on the east and Laramie Ave. on the west, Chicago Ave. on the north and the Green Line El tracks on the south, there have been exactly seven home sales in the past six months.