Comment: No, the tax revenue would barely dent Illinois’ pension deficits, contrary to what this article says. But legalization did mean significant revenue and enforcement savings for Colorado.

Comment: Rauner is dead right. We wrote our own reminder about what kind of supreme court we have, linked here.

And that number is rising rapidly:  Six-figure pensions for public school teachers are up over 60 percent from 2012, when 3,458 retired teachers received $100,000-plus pensions from the state. Comment: Teachers would rightly point out that many of these pensioners are administrators, not teachers. That gets tricky, however, because many administrators are former teachers, including spikers — teachers moved into high paying administrative positions in their final years, which spikes their pension.  

A plan for a central Illinois zoo and wildlife park is garnering support from economic development advocates and criticism from local landowners and the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

A Mundelein, Ill., contract packaging company called Apak plans to complete its move to Racine and expand to bring a total of 46 jobs, with city financial assistance.

If passed into law, a new bill would require units of local government and school districts with budgets over $1 million to post a series of documents online that would bring taxpayers into the loop on how each unit allocates, spends and makes decisions.