Glenbard Twp HSD 87 school district is under scrutiny as its superintendent, David Larson receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
Western Springs SD 101 school district is under scrutiny as its superintendent, Brian Barnhart receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
Indian Prairie CUSD 204 school district is under scrutiny as its superintendent, Adrian Talley receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
Illinoisans pay the nation’s highest property taxes but just 30% of students statewide can read at grade level.
According to Burr Ridge business owner Margot Henshaw, the damage Gov. J.B. Pritzker is causing the state is unlike any seen under previous governors.
State Rep. Anne Stava-Murray (D-Naperville) has opted into the legislator pension system, according to a Freedom of Information Act request by the DuPage Policy Journal.
The information surrounding COVID-19 and its case numbers do not go deep enough to provide useful information for Illinois residents about the situation, according to Wirepoints and a state former representative.
Illinois state Rep. Deanne Mazzochi (R-Elmhurst) insists that all the details about Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposed progressive income tax that Democrats have shared publicly thus far are meant to deceive.
Financial expert Mark Glennon of Wilmette says in his analysis of a new study on state and local pensions that the options available to reduce the substantial obligations facing Illinois funds include amending the state constitution or going through federal bankruptcy.
The chances that Illinois will reach a budget before May 31 and avoid seeing its bond rating lowered to the worst of any state in history are 50-50 at best, according to Mark Glennon, founder of the business and government website WirePoints told the Sangamon Sun recently.
The chances that Illinois will reach a budget before May 31 and avoid seeing its bond rating lowered to the worst of any state in history are 50-50 at best, according to Mark Glennon, founder of the business and government website WirePoints told the Sangamon Sun recently.