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John Atkinson, of Intersect Illinois, the state's business attraction organization: " Illinois offers a large, skilled workforce of over six million people, half of which have bachelor’s degrees or higher. Illinois’ astounding 244 higher education institutions are among the best in the world. The University of Illinois alone graduates more engineers each year than MIT, Stanford and Caltech combined. Beyond that, our community college system is the third largest in the nation. That means Illinois is providing customized training to students of all ages to ensure they gain the skills that are most in demand now."
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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The jobs data shows the private sector in IL is shrinking. Government jobs do NOT create prosperity, but are wasteful spending which consumes private wealth.
The author left out one little piece of information, so I revised the title of the article. Original title of article: “Actually, Illinois is a great place to do business right now.” More informative title: “Actually, with major taxpayer subsidies, Illinois is a great place to do business right now.”