A major state business group is taking to task GOP gubernatorial hopeful Jeanne Ives, saying her latest hot-button TV ad is “fundamentally dishonest” on the subject of immigration and immigrants who get into legal trouble.
Every workday, attorneys enter criminal courtrooms across Cook County, put away their smartphones and operate in a world that their grandparents would have recognized: accordion-style Manila folders to hold paper documents, handwritten orders for judges to sign, even carbon paper to make copies of the paper filings.
Illinoisans are losing out everywhere they turn. Their incomes are stagnant. They’ve just been hit with a record $5 billion dollar income tax hike. They have to pay the nation’s’ highest property taxes. And they have to pay for the total state pension benefits that have grown exponentially over the past 30 years.