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It’s amazing what nearly $200 billion in federal COVID aid can do to paper over a state’s crumbling finances. Illinois’ state tax revenues are temporarily at record levels, the unpaid bills backlog has been cut and Illinois even saw its credit rating saved from the precipice of junk. Comptroller Susana Mendoza recently called the state’s changed circumstances an “absolutely remarkable turnaround.”

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week urged President Biden to fully cancel federal student loan debt owed by every federal student loan borrower in the country.

It doesn’t matter where you stand on the issues of sex-ed, pronoun usage or transgenderism in school, you should know who’s teaching your kids, what they’re teaching them and whether there’s more than meets the eye.

We recently wrote about how Illinoisans are burdened by the nation’s highest effective property taxes. New research by ATTOM ranked Illinois residential property tax rates as number one in 2021, just ahead of New Jersey.

Are Illinoisans better off with the new 2023 budget?