Chicago City Council Budget Chair On Property Tax Hike: ‘I Believe We Can...
Back when I was an aide to U.S. Senator Paul Simon of Illinois, there was one cardinal rule to be followed when communicating with constituents: Good news comes from Paul, bad news comes from his...
View ArticleThinking Of Illinois’ Financial Woes While In Wisconsin
Saturday morning while working on projects around my family’s place in Wisconsin, something I read earlier in the week came to mind. Steven Malanga wrote on The Fiscal Times website on March 30:...
View ArticleChicago’s Property Tax Hike To Hammer Small Business, Renters?
Looks like my girlfriend and I may have dodged yet another bullet moving out of our Chicago rental when we did (no pun intended). Hal Dardick and Bob Secter reported on the Chicago Tribune website...
View ArticleMore Financial Pain For Many Chicago Homeowners In The Coming Days
When it comes to keeping on top of the latest financial developments coming out Chicago, I’ve been out of the loop lately (no pun intended). As if that really mattered. Like I’ve been saying for some...
View ArticleCook County, Illinois, Faces $174 Million Shortfall
From the Cook County, Illinois, website (under “News) last Thursday: Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today released the preliminary forecast for the County’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget,...
View ArticleSigns Of The Time, Part 108
After blogging back on June 21 about the next round of property tax bills due to hit Cook County, Illinois, residents’ mailboxes in the coming days, I told my girlfriend to pay attention to the local...
View ArticleCity Of Chicago’s Total Unfunded Liabilities Grew To Nearly $24 Billion In 2015
It’s been a while since I last blogged about the Illinois Policy Institute, a Chicago-based non-partisan research organization “generating public policy solutions aimed at promoting personal freedom...
View ArticleChicago Police Department Manpower Shortage Latest
“Chicago readers take note: The ‘thin blue line’ that exists in the Windy City will likely remain that way for the foreseeable future. Carry on accordingly.” –Survival And Prosperity, October 3, 2011...
View Article2017 Tax Hits To Chicagoans
“Broken record” time. “New/higher fees, fines, and taxes, and less government services.” Regular readers of Survival And Prosperity (and older ones from my Boom2Bust days) know I’ve been warning about...
View ArticleMoody’s On Chicago Public Schools Crisis: Consider Tax Levy, Pension...
“Chicago and New York rank at the bottom of a new analysis of fiscal strength based primarily on data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. The analysis includes 116 U.S. cities...
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