Former Illinois State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) calls this Mike Madigan time in Springfield.

Government watchdog website Wirepoints argues that Gov. J.B. Pritzker's proposed progressive income tax system essentially puts Illinois in an impossible situation.

Illinois home values have yet to return to pre-recession levels, making the state home to one of the worst recovery rates in the country.

In the matter of Illinois' Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Wirepoints' Ted Dabrowski believes lawmakers in Springfield are not seeing the forest for the trees.

Michael McHale, director of corporate communications for an emerging electric truck and SUV manufacturer, cautions that there will be no winners if Illinois lawmakers’ follow through with their ill-advised attempt to hike registration fees for electric vehicles (EVs) nearly 60 times over.

The Heartland Institute's George Jamerson deems Illinois lawmakers’ rationale behind seeking to raise the gas tax and vehicle registration fees as flawed through and through.

A coalition of Illinois small businesses recently spoke out against the hardships a proposed video-gaming tax hike would cause them, organizing a press conference under the heading Bet on Main Street.

A special-interest group spoke in opposition to the possibility of Illinois passing a bill that would legalize the recreational use of cannabis.

Standing in support of Georgia House Bill 481 comes as naturally as breathing for Illinois Right to Life Action Executive Director Mary Kate Knorr.

Pastor Eric Wallace believes the inmates are now running the asylum in Springfield when it comes to House Bill 246.

In a recent article critical of a proposed move to a progressive income tax, the Heartland Institute’s Matthew Glans and Lennie Jarratt point out that one of the arguments for the tax is an empty one: revenues the state has been collecting through the current flat tax are among the most robust in the Midwest.

Sports wagering legislation in Springfield punishing two online gaming companies is a blind for protecting the in-state interests of billionaire casino mogul, Neil Bluhm, according to one of the nation’s leading legal experts on gaming.

A recent survey of mostly public district and public charter school teachers finds that most of them would rather negotiate their own contracts as opposed to be bound by collective bargaining-reached agreements.

Luke Dean Niforatos fears what may happen to Illinois if supporters of marijuana legalization legislation have their way.

Government watchdog group Ideas Illinois is fighting back against what it sees as Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s grand form of hypocrisy.

Illinois is missing out on the economic boom benefiting most states, a fiscal update from the Pew Charitable Trusts shows. Years of overspending and fiscal mismanagement has the state actually contracting in some economic categories.

The fact that the Illinois budget situation has become a farce is no laughing matter to Ted Dabrowski.

Students residing in Illinois illegally would be eligible to receive taxpayer funded grants under a bill proposed by a trio of Democratic House members.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the introduction of a bill that would legalize marijuana in Illinois for adults 21 and older, but plenty of critics believe it would be a dangerously wrong turn for the state.

The most recent amendment proposed for Illinois' sports betting bill would push out online and mobile sports wagering companies, but one managing director at a California gaming industry research firm says that should come as no surprise, considering where the idea came from.