Chicago Sees Strong Year in VC Funding With $2.2B Raised in 2019 – Chicago Inno
January 14, 2020
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Chicago eyes bigger budget savings from upsized bond refunding – Reuters
January 14, 2020
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What will it take for pols to get serious about our property tax pain? – Crain’s
January 14, 2020
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Comment: This article makes pretty much the same criticisms as ours on the draft recommendations by the Property Tax Relief Task Force. From this article: “The draft report of the property tax relief task force offers little hope that elected officials will do what’s necessary to reverse these trends.”
Report shows failures in DCFS investigation before 2018 fire that killed two children – Herald-Whig
January 14, 2020
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Pritzker reflects on first year in office, looks ahead to 2020 – Capitol News IL
January 14, 2020
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Audit finds growing unfunded liabilities for Illinois’ teacher pension system – Center Square
January 14, 2020
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Lightfoot-backed study to look at possible set-asides for gay-, transgender-owned Chicago businesses advances – Chicago Tribune
January 14, 2020
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s move to study whether gay- and transgender-owned businesses should get city contracting set-asides similar to those for minority- and women-owned companies advanced Tuesday despite black aldermen’s concerns about how such status can be verified and that it could mainly benefit white men.
Downtown office market posts best year since 2007 – Crain’s
January 14, 2020
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Companies moved into more downtown Chicago office space in 2019 than in any year since before the Great Recession, keeping the good times rolling for landlords into the new decade. But some landlords still have big holes to fill.
Quincy Media, Inc. launches Illinois Capitol Bureau – NBC25
January 14, 2020
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Foundation’s Chicago affordable housing defaults spread to suburban portfolios – The Bond Buyer
January 14, 2020
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An Exit Interview with Senate President John Cullerton – WTTW
January 14, 2020
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A GOP-led edge: Red states see less unemployment, more economic growth – The Hill
January 14, 2020
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Why an aging and shrinking Illinois is a threat to public sector pensions
January 14, 2020
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There’s a perfect demographic storm brewing in Illinois that threatens to take retirement security for government workers from bad to worse: Illinois’ boomer generation is hitting retirement age just as Illinoisans and their wealth are migrating out of the state at a record pace.