Pension consolidation bill clears Illinois House, sent to Senate
A bill to consolidate 649 suburban and downstate police and firefighter pension funds into just two cleared the Illinois House...
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Pension consolidation bill gets tentative OK in House committee
A plan to consolidate 649 downstate municipal police and firefighter pension funds into just two unified systems hit an unexpected...
Red light camera study bill advances in Senate
A bill calling on the Illinois Department of Transportation to conduct a study on the use of automated red light...
Amtrak ridership hits record highs on two Illinois lines
Amtrak routes that connect Chicago to St. Louis and Milwaukee saw record numbers of riders in the federal fiscal year...
From BGA: Pressure on property taxes mounts for towns across Illinois amid pension burden
All across Illinois, in many of the small towns and larger cities that manage some 650 independent police and fire...
Pritzker calls multi-year road construction plan ‘historic improvement’
Lawmakers and Illinois Department of Transportation officials released details of a new $23.5 billion multi-year plan for revamping the state’s...
Task force recommends merging 649 local pension funds
A task force Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker formed in February is recommending the state consolidate 649 suburban and downstate police...
Illinois reports job gains, lower unemployment
Unemployment rates in all 14 metropolitan areas in Illinois dropped over the past 12 months as the state’s economy added...
Some lawmakers wary of plan to move foster children into managed care
The state of Illinois is about to overhaul the way it provides health care to an estimated 74,000 of the...
Illinois Secure Choice program takes aim at ‘retirement crisis’
Illinois Secure Choice was created by state law in 2015, requiring businesses with 25 employees or more to offer retirement...
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