Essentially, the cost of all overassessed property values, each year, will now be passed onto all property taxpayers the next year.

Illinois does have one thing going for it: cheap and reliable electricity.

The employers’ group is also urging the governor to address the unemployment insurance trust fund debt. Despite guidance allowing the state to use some of the $8 billion it got from federal taxpayers for the debt, the governor told the Chicago Sun-Times he asked what kind of additional breaks the Biden administration could provide.

Get a job, and the average Illinoisan can expect to earn $55,770 a year. Stay home and collect unemployment, and a single person will get $41,860 and a parent will receive $51,627. That’s $4,000 less for a parent deciding not to work, and with no child care or transportation expenses.

Independently drawn maps that enhance electoral competition would have gone a long way toward encouraging more candidates to run for Statehouse races and ultimately more voter engagement. But despite repeated promises not to, Pritzker signed into law another decade’s worth of gerrymandered maps earlier last month.