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Illinois municipalities announce “Moving Cities Forward” legislative package
IML Executive Director Brad Cole, IML Board President and Chatham Village President Tom Gray, IML Sergeant at Arms and Lynwood Village...
Feb 24, 2016


Gov. Rauner: First, fix the school funding formula
For the record, the South Side won the argument. A task force established by House Speaker Michael Madigan is exploring an overhaul of...
Feb 22, 2016


Key legislative breakfast event message: Advocate for your town
At the breakfast, Legislative Committee Chairman Richard Reinbold (mayor of Richton Park) presented an SSMMA major issue overview,...
Feb 19, 2016


Budget ‘uncertainty’ weighs on local communities
In a letter earlier this month to faculty and staff at Governors State University, Maimon, president of the University Park school, said...
Feb 17, 2016


Gov. Rauner announces four bipartisan pieces of legislation to streamline local government
Map courtesy of the Illinois Association of REALTORS® Press release from the Office of the Governor: Governor Bruce Rauner [on Feb. 5,...
Feb 5, 2016


State universities: Illinois budget stalemate causing damage ‘beyond repair’
“This is a crisis by every definition of the word crisis,” said Thomas Wogan, spokesman for the South Side public university that serves...
Jan 20, 2016


Report on how to shrink Illinois government approved
Map courtesy of the Illinois Association of REALTORS® Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s task force on shrinking the number of Illinois...
Dec 18, 2015


IML staff analysis of local government funding bill (SB2039)
Analysis of Senate Bill 2039 Staff: Joe Schatteman Status of Legislation: Public Act 99 – 0491 (Effective Date – December 7, 2015) ...
Dec 11, 2015
Distribution schedule of released state funds
Thanks to the Illinois Municipal League for providing this info: With the passage of SB2039 (and enactment of PA99-0491), previously...
Dec 9, 2015


Task force looks to shrink Illinois government
Map courtesy of the Illinois Association of REALTORS® On the campaign trail and in his first weeks in office, Gov. Bruce Rauner pledged...
Dec 8, 2015


Gov. Rauner OKs ‘piecemeal’ spending plan in rare compromise
The Republican governor took action just hours after the Democratic-controlled Senate sent him the legislation on a 53-0 vote. The...
Dec 8, 2015


Rauner, Democrats strike deal on lottery payouts, gas tax money for towns
Normally, municipalities receive a share of gas tax, 911 surcharge and gambling revenue to help prop up day-to-day operations, but those...
Dec 3, 2015


Budget impasse’s threat growing for Southland social services
The number of people in need of treatment exceeds the agency’s ability to serve them all, its top official said, and the situation is...
Nov 30, 2015


Will County to state: Give us our money
The board has passed resolutions urging legislators to provide the county with its share of revenue from the motor fuel tax and the 911...
Nov 25, 2015
Illinois House’s vote to send overdue money to towns in political limbo
After withholding nearly $2 billion from towns in motor fuel tax funds, fee revenue for 911 dispatch centers, local video gambling money...
Nov 12, 2015


Local governments owed more than $181M in motor fuel taxes
Records from the Illinois comptroller’s office show more than $89 million is owed to municipalities and $63.6 million is owed to...
Nov 3, 2015


Illinois workers’ comp costs fall below Indiana, Wisconsin
Workers’ compensation has emerged as an important issue in the budget stalemate in Springfield. Before approving a budget for the current...
Oct 27, 2015


Kadner: Rauner loan offer riles Southland mayors
They’re referring to a proposal by Gov. Bruce Rauner to offer low-interest state loans to municipalities that are suffering financially...
Oct 26, 2015


As state withholds Motor Fuel Tax, village’s street repair fund could run dry
But, as the state budget impasse continues, revenues that fund those expenditures will soon be nearly depleted. Flossmoor and other...
Oct 21, 2015


Rauner isn’t going to end the budget stalemate
Speaking at an awards luncheon of the Chicago Southland Convention & Visitors Bureau at the Oak Lawn Hilton, the Republican governor said...
Oct 8, 2015
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