CITY HALL HOO-HA: In an extraordinary rebuke to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, even his allies joined in voting down his budget proposal — which included a $300 million property tax increase. The ...

Check out the interactive database embedded in the article to see how metro-east school districts are funded compared to the ...

In 2017, then-Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law a new school funding formula to reverse decades of inequitable support provided to public schools. The new formula — referred to as evidence-based ...

In Tuesday's election, Democrat Marti Deuter and Republican Dennis Reboletti are running. District 45 includes parts of ...

But Elmhurst Democrat Jenn Ladisch Douglass ended that tradition with her victory in 2022. She decided against running again. Republican can ...

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CTU President Stacy Davis Gates calls Martinez “a victim of the failed policies of the education deform movement,” blaming Emanuel, former Republican Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, former CPS ...

The “Blue Wave” election cycle in 2018 expanded Madigan’s Democratic caucus to its largest number yet and wiped out his biggest political nemesis: Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. As a ...

Started under Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2017, the program allowed Illinois taxpayers to donate to a scholarship-granting organization of their choice, like Empower Illinois and the Big ...

The independently wealthy former Gov. Bruce Rauner made waves in 2014 when he put millions of his own dollars into his run against Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn. Rauner lost his reelection bid in ...