
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase and former Chicagoan on our fiscal mess: “It’s a train coming down the tracks at 60 miles an hour, and it will be really bad if it’s not fixed. We know that, and we’ve seen this before. We’ve seen this with companies, we’ve seen it with Detroit, we’ve seen it with Puerto Rico. And, honestly, the sooner you act, the better. There’s no question in my mind that it will affect companies and individuals….”
Google fired an engineer with suburban Chicago roots after he wrote a missive arguing that biological differences play a role in the shortage of women in tech and leadership positions, but legal experts say his threats to sue may not get far in court.
“Voters are onto this scheme. They know bunk when they see it. Restore some of their trust. Kill a beverage tax that everyone knows is a shakedown.”
Three members of the Cook County Board have opened a new front in the battle over the county’s controversial new tax on soda pop and other sweetened beverages, moving to limit board President Toni Preckwinkle’s ability to file civil lawsuits. The measure would require advance board approval of any civil suit filed by the president on behalf the county that seeks more than $500,000. The board also would have to be notified of any suit seeking more than $100,000.
Yet you’ve probably never heard of most of them.
Ports of Indiana CEO Rich Cooper says the expansion would help attract new companies and meet the anticipated future demand at the port.

That’s part of why our story on the bill was headlined “Monstrosity of Unknown Proportions.”
“And you wonder why Trump won the election?”
What is a debt affordability study? It is a document that describes all of the state’s outstanding debt by type.
With the state on the path to blowing a Thursday deadline to deliver funds to schools across Illinois, the state Senate is bringing lawmakers back to Springfield on Sunday in an effort to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of an education funding measure.

Chicagoland’s Gregg Kaplan is the founder and former CEO of Redbox, the automated DVD rental kiosks. Over 11 years, Kaplan grew this business from scratch to nearly $2 billion in revenue.
The Illinois Attorney General is being asked to weigh in on the school funding fight in the state, and the outcome could delay the new school funding model from being implemented until next year.
The speaker’s prowess for political longevity is unmatched in modern America.
A growing portion of Illinois’ income tax revenue is coming from Chicago and the suburbs, new data from the Illinois Department of Revenue shows. But are they getting their fair share back?

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