09.24.21
The Chicago City Council approved a new collective bargaining agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) on September 14, 2021. The FOP is the union representing the approximately 11,000 police...
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09.13.21
09.08.21
The General Assembly approved and Governor Pritzker signed an approximately $48.7 billion capital budget on June 17, 2021. [1]
Unlike the State’s annual General Funds budget, which is intended to cover only the cost of operations for the current...
09.02.21
On August 24, 2021, Governor Pritzker signed legislation that will create a Higher Education Evidence-Based...
08.18.21
The Civic Federation hosted a series of criminal justice reform panel discussions as part of the annual conference of the Governmental Research Association in July. Here we highlight the key takeaways from discussions on two topics currently at the...
08.13.21
The State of Illinois received some good fiscal news this summer: two rating agencies upgraded the State’s credit ratings and a third revised its outlook to positive. The credit upgrades were the first in in two decades, reversing years of negative news.
The State of Illinois currently...
08.05.21
CPS enrollment has been declining steadily for at least the past decade while personnel spending has increased dramatically. In a recent analysis of the Chicago Public Schools proposed FY2022 budget , the Civic Federation raised concerns over...
07.29.21
The fiscal year 2022 budget for the State of Illinois and the process that created it showed the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the beginnings of a recovery within the State economy. Unlike the FY2021 budget, the spending plan for FY2022 does not rely on federal borrowing and...
07.28.21