Daily Links

9.6.2015

• Huffington Post: 3 Must-Know Facts About Illinois Taxes
• Chicago Sun Times: Sticking a thumb in Mike Madigan's eye
• Chicago Tonight: State Rep. Ken Dunkin: ‘I Don’t Work for Mike Madigan’
• Chicago Tribune: Road to record Emanuel tax hike paved by delays, 'gimmicks'
• Chicago Tribune: Illinois employers report mass layoffs of 2,140 people in August
• Chicago Tribune: Rauner, AFSCME back to bargaining

SB 1229 officially dead: Madigan’s defeat is Illinois taxpayers’ victory

 

Daily Links

9.5.2015

• Chicago Tribune: Rauner, AFSCME back to bargaining
• WSJ: Public Pension Funds Roll Back Return Targets
• Chicago Tribune: Road to record Emanuel tax hike paved by delays, 'gimmicks'
• Chicago Tribune: Illinois employers report mass layoffs of 2,140 people in August
• Vox: The simple truth about why mass incarceration happened
• Crain's: This guy could have prevented the big tax increase—but he did nothing

Madigan comes up short on SB 1229 override

By Hilary Gowins Yelvington

09/03/2015

House Speaker Mike Madigan said on multiple occasions he had the votes to override the governor’s veto.

Rahm calls for the largest property tax hike in modern Chicago history

By Ted Dabrowski

09/03/2015

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls for property-tax hikes, garbage-collection fees and ridesharing surcharges as a stop-gap measure to plug the city’s $750 million budget hole.

Failure to override veto of SB 1229: Great win for taxpayers