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See our Quicktake on this linked here.

Comment: You can find a study supporting pretty much any opinion you want on the minimum wage, but the best aggregation is from the genuinely nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research, linked here.

AFSCME – the largest government worker union in the state – may pull off one of the most insulting waiting games in state history. The payoff? More than $3 billion, courtesy of Illinois taxpayers.

Illinois could have a new governor before a long-running labor dispute between Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration and the state’s largest public union is sorted out.

One labor analyst said that may be what the union wants.