Northern Illinois leaders consider reinstating grocery sales tax at local level – WIFR (Rockford)
DeKalb City Manager Bill Nicklas says he understands the tax’s elimination may benefit working- and middle-class families, but his budgeting process “isn’t about where our heartstrings are.”
For the second weekend in a row, Chicago police are investigating a shooting in the River North nightlife district. Today’s victim is the tenth person shot on the Near North Side this year.
Long-standing House rules — put in place to prevent the misuse of taxpayer funds — ban members of Congress from leasing from anyone with whom they have or had a professional, legal, or family relationship. The same rules require a fair market rate to be