08.18.10
On August 5, the Civic Federation released its analysis of the FY2011 City Colleges Tentative Annual Operating budget. The Federation supports the District’s $...
08.18.10
On August 5, the Civic Federation released its analysis of the FY2011 City Colleges Tentative Annual Operating budget. The Federation supports the District’s $...
08.12.10
At a Cook County Board of Commissioners meeting, held on June 15, 2010, Cook County Commissioner Joseph Moreno called on County staff members to explain a series of errors in the meeting’s agenda, noting a lengthy list of deletions, insertions and corrections to what should have been the...
08.11.10
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn recently announced his plans for $500 million in mass transit infrastructure improvements across the State. $442.7 million of that will go to the Regional Transit...
08.06.10
Roughly a month ago, on July 1, 2010, Governor Pat Quinn announced that he planned to cut $1.1 billion from the $26.0 billion FY2011 State of Illinois budget previously approved by the General Assembly. At that time, the Governor did not say where $891 million of those spending cuts would be...
08.05.10
The Civic Federation supports the City Colleges FY2011 proposed budget totaling $581.9 million, which includes $454.4 million for the operating budget and $127.5 million for capital improvements....
08.04.10
A tax increment financing (TIF) transparency bill ( Public Act 096-1335 ) passed by the Illinois legislature in May and signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn on July 27 includes a number of long-standing...
08.04.10
The Civic Federation recently announced a call for nominations for the 19 th Annual Motorola Foundation Excellence in Public Service Award. The Excellence in Public Service Award recognizes a non-elected government employee who has made an extraordinary impact on the quality of government...
08.03.10
This report provides estimates of the total market value of real property in Cook County from 1999-2008 and shows how property value is spread among the City of Chicago, the northern and the...
07.29.10
On Tuesday in New York City, the Governmental Research Association recognized the Civic Federation’s Institute for Illinois’ Fiscal Sustainability with its Most Distinguished Research Award for the Institute’s “...
07.28.10
On June 17, 2010 the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District held a study session to...