07.01.21
On June 24, 2021, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle issued a preliminary budget forecast for fiscal year 2022 . The fiscal year begins December 1, 2021 and ends November 30...
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06.25.21
Event lineup includes tributes from government, business and civic luminaries
On Tuesday, June 29, the Civic Federation will celebrate the outstanding civic and philanthropic contributions of Ariel Investments and Maurice Smith, President and CEO of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC...
06.18.21
The Illinois General Assembly recently passed major revisions to its initial 2019 adult-use cannabis law. The revisions target an important provision of the original law that was meant to ensure access by disadvantaged communities to the growing and lucrative cannabis industry....
06.11.21
On April 21, 2021, the City of Chicago adopted Substitute Ordinance 2020-5902 , which requires the Department of Finance to publish monthly...
05.18.21
The Civic Federation opposes legislation under consideration by the Illinois General Assembly that would create a 21-member elected Chicago School Board. The proposal would establish a governing board that would: be too large to be effective; lead to expensive and divisive political campaigns...
05.14.21
Because the judiciary in Illinois is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), data disclosure and responses to requests for information are discretionary, despite the fact that individual case files are a matter of public record and are open to any member of the public for...
05.13.21
05.07.21
As laid out in many Civic Federation blogs over the last several years, the State’s two pension buyout plans, which were enacted as part of the FY2019 budget legislation, were supposed to generate hundreds of...
04.29.21
The Civic Federation’s recently released Inventory of Local Governments in Illinois report identified a total of 8,923 units of local government in Illinois. This includes 2,826 general purpose governments and 6,097 special purpose governments...
04.28.21