Chicago Organization Funds Opportunities for Entrepreneurs of Color
Last year, big banks JPMorgan Chase and Fifth Third Bank created the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund. The newly founded but wildly supported fund provides needed loans to minority-owned businesses in the south and west sides of Chicago. These neighborhoods are known for...
Illinois is Taking a Gamble on Sports Betting
Autumn brings with it playoff baseball, regular season football, and the start of basketball and hockey. And don’t forget college sports, especially football. With such an abundance of sports comes the enticing opportunities to partake in sports betting. However,...
Save Your Back to School Supplies, Chicago
For the third time in under a decade, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is voting on the possibility of a strike, asking for higher pay over the next several years. Their demands include $452 million for union members, and the vote will be held from September 24...
Chicago’s Surprising New Job Kick
For years, Chicago has been known to lag behind most other metropolitan cities in the U.S. when it comes to a number of economic trends. It has become customary for Illinoisans to expect our state to enter the race late when it comes to markets like housing and...
The New Kid on the Worker’s Comp Block
For decades, Chicago’s worker’s compensation program was privately handled by Ald. Edward Burke. It was recently brought to surface that the program was operating under unfair practices, with under-trained staff and a lack of overall knowledge of the program. An audit...
Prepare to Pay More Taxes
Beginning July 1st, the first set of many proposed tax increases on several goods will have taken effect across the state of Illinois. The goal of the increased taxation of these goods is to help fund the newest spending plan to fix state-wide infrastructure, like...
How the Roads of Illinois Mirror Their Finances
Unless you are brand new to Illinois, you know how terrible our roads are. Severe winters, tons of salt, and millions of vehicles have taken a toll. Every pothole seems worse than the one before it. When you’re fenced in by traffic on all sides, they are...
The Bill to Kick Out Chicago
Illinois wants a voice. And by Illinois, I don’t mean Chicago, although that would be easy to assume; Illinois is more than its urban epicenter and surrounding collar counties, or at least that is what the rural communities in the state want you to know.
When a Fair Tax is Not Fair
The new Governor and members of his party tout the idea of a “fair tax” when in many ways it could be regarded as the opposite. We shouldn’t be surprised that our lawmakers are unable to define the word “fair” when they are unable to define the word “balanced”.
A Governor’s First 100 Days
Governor Pritzker celebrated his first 100 days in office in April and his office released a list of his accomplishments in these first 100 days. Pritzker came into office with big plans of what he wanted to achieve and the policies that he wanted to enforce.