Jim Dey: “A definite downside to the report was a continued lag in sales-tax and corporate income-tax revenues. July corporate income-tax revenues added up to $242 million. That’s an $81 million decline from July 2023. July sales-tax revenues were $942 million, down $45 million from July 2023. That continues a disturbing revenue trend.”

“At this point, there aren’t that many options,” said Urbana Mayor Diane Marlin said. “You know, you either raise revenue or cut expenses and we don’t want to do the latter.”

“Part of it is that there are fewer students. Part of it is that people think that maybe college is getting too expensive and they can achieve their goals more cheaply. Within Illinois, I think those same demographics hold,” economics professor Scott Hegerty said. “State schools are a little bit more insulated because they get state appropriations, but those have taken hits over the years.”

The Illinois-Iowa Co-Op of McDonald’s said the central Illinois jobs will be in Decatur, Springfield and Champaign.

“I called for the sheriff’s resignation because the sheriff has failed,” Pritzker said. “He has failed to explain how he ended up hiring this deputy sheriff who has been fired from other departments.”

“These new laws will ensure that women in Illinois and those traveling from out of state can avoid persecution and discrimination on every level,” said Gov. JB Pritzker.

The plan for an airport in the south suburbs has been proposed and discussed in various forms for decades, with the earliest proposals coming in the 1960s; The current plan is for a cargo-only airport between Beecher and Peotone. The state currently owns 89 percent of the land needed to build such an airport.

IFT’s federal filing with the U.S. Department of Labor shows just over one-quarter of the union’s spending is on representing teachers. It also spent more than $1 million on politics – mostly for unspecified purposes – and paid dozens of its own employees six-figure salaries.

Matching this year’s fair theme of “It’s Showtime!”, 2024’s butter cow is accompanied by a little girl pulling a seven-scoop ice cream cone out of her magician’s hat.

According to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification reports, 1,169 Illinois workers were laid off in July. It marked the third straight month the number of layoffs has increased. Four Illinois companies reported 100 or more layoffs last month: John Deere in Moline, GEODIS in Romeoville, NBC Universal/NBC Sports Chicago and Keplr Vision of Bloomington.

The company plans to establish facilities in Michigan’s Green Charter Township — within 100 miles of Camp Grayling, a National Guard installation where Taiwanese forces have trained — and Manteno, Illinois, with the help of generous state and federal subsidies.

“The Chicago area is home to the biggest Palestinian diaspora in the US. They’re going to make sure the Democratic National Convention hears them.”

The Language Equity and Access Act requires the Governor’s Office of New Americans to partner with the Illinois Department of Human Services to create, implement, and oversee statewide language access plans for state agencies.

This comes as Western is trying to balance a $20 million budget deficit. However, the question as to how many employees will be laid off still remains. Administrators would not release a number.

At last month’s RNC in Milwaukee, Illinois GOP Chair Kathy Salvi said she met with other Republicans from across the country. “As for the culture of corruption, I’ve been here with many of the delegations from across the nation and sadly that is what we are known for, a culture of corruption in Illinois.”

“In making the short list but failing to win the vice presidential sweepstakes, Pritzker was faced with being content to live with another old political saw, ‘Better to be looked over, than overlooked.’ … But it also scrambles the calendar for Pritzker’s White House aspirations.”