The U.S. unemployment rate for black Americans is 6.8 percent. That’s the lowest level since 1972, when the government began tracking that data. More people are finding work, more households are seeing their prospects improve.

Now the news in Illinois, where over the decades politicians have sent employers an inescapable message: We like your private sector tax dollars, but have you thought about moving your business to Indiana, to Wisconsin, to Texas?

So we aren’t shocked that the unemployment rate for African-Americans in Illinois is 10 percent. That’s the highest of any state, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

A close look at a union front group and how dues money is spent for political gain.

The Land of Lincoln is also the land of “sin” taxes, “saint” subsidies and other nanny-like policies, according to a new study.

A reprint of our Wirepoints story.

From proposing state tax cuts or even lawsuits against the feds, a number of high-tax states like California and New Jersey are looking at ways to lessen the impact of federal tax reform on their state’s bottom lines. What’s happening in high tax Illinois? Not much.