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...
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- Feb 5, 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,...
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- Jan 20, 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...
SSMMA
- Dec 18, 2015
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...
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- Dec 11, 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) ...
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- Dec 9, 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...
SSMMA
- Dec 8, 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...
SSMMA
- 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...
SSMMA
- Dec 3, 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...
SSMMA
- Nov 30, 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...
SSMMA
- Nov 25, 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...
SSMMA
- Nov 12, 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...
SSMMA
- Nov 3, 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...
SSMMA
- Oct 27, 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...
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- Oct 26, 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...
SSMMA
- Oct 21, 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...
SSMMA
- Oct 8, 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...
SSMMA
- Oct 2, 2015
Mayors push to release tax money due towns
Suburban mayors are stepping up pressure on the state to release millions of dollars in motor fuel and gambling tax revenue and other...
SSMMA
- Sep 23, 2015
State gaming board slams door on casino malls
Gaming board chairman Donald Tracy reiterated a statement he made at the board’s August meeting, saying he viewed such operations as...
SSMMA
- Sep 18, 2015
Gaming board chair inclined to oppose backdoor casinos
Chairman Don Tracy made those statements at an August hearing of the board after the mayor of Hometown and a developer behind the concept...
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