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Download a copy of the 2011 Annual Report (2.3MB).

The Civic Federation has received awards for our evidence-based, independent research.

The Governmental Research Association recognized the Civic Federation’s work in all three categories of the 2012 Annual Awards. The Civic Federation’s Cook County Modernization Project was selected for the Outstanding Policy Achievement Award, the Federation’s Institute for Fiscal Sustainability received a Certificate of Merit for Most Distinguished Research for the State of Illinois Enacted Budget FY2012: A Review of the Operating and Capital Budgets Enacted for the Current Fiscal Year and the Institute’s State of Illinois FY2013 Budget Roadmap was recognized with a Certificate of Merit for Most Effective Education.
The Governmental Research Association awarded the Institute for Illinois’ Fiscal Sustainability at the Civic Federation a Most Distinguished Research Award in 2010 for our “Fiscal Rehabilitation Plan for the State of Illinois” project, which described the basis of Illinois’ fiscal crisis and offered a comprehensive plan to put the State back on solid financial footing.
The Civic Federation was awarded the prestigious Governmental Research Association Outstanding Policy Achievement Award in 2007 for our leadership of the successful campaign to dissolve the Suburban Cook County TB Sanitarium District.
Also in 2007, Federation research on the effects of the “7% cap” on property taxes in Cook County received a Certificate of Merit for Most Distinguished Research.