The average VA home loan amount in Illinois during the first quarter of the fiscal year 2024 was $282,632, according to the Veterans Affairs Home Loans Index.
Illinois collected $809 million in license taxes during the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Quarterly Summary of State and Local Taxes.
Illinois collected $19 million in property taxes during the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Quarterly Summary of State and Local Taxes.
Illinois has reported a decrease in respiratory virus levels, with all counties now classified at a low level for COVID-19 hospitalizations for the first time since October. According to CDC data from the week ending March 23, there was a 20% decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations across the state.
Illinois' Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter says Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker's move to free more violent criminals from Illinois prisons by appointing "crazy activists" to the state's parole board is "throwing Illinoisans to the wolves."
Over the past year, total nonfarm jobs have increased in eleven metropolitan areas and decreased in three for the period ending February 2024. This information comes from data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois Department of Employment Security (DES). However, all fourteen metropolitan areas saw an increase in unemployment rates over the same period.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker's Prisoner Review Board is under fire for showing leniency to violent felon Crosetti Brand, who critically wounded his ex-girlfriend and stabbed her eleven year-old son to death, a day after his release from state prison.