The Village of Burlington had the 896th highest lottery ticket net sales statewide per capita for the month of January 2016 -- up 2 spots from its December ranking.
The Village of Elburn had the 448th highest lottery ticket net sales statewide per capita for the month of May 2016 -- up 110 spots from its April ranking.
Thanks to its nearly $700 million in debt and plummeting home values, Aurora has some of the highest effective property tax rates not just all of Chicagoland, but the entire nation.
The Village of Carpentersville had the 692th highest lottery ticket net sales statewide per capita for the month of January 2016 -- down 44 spots from its December ranking.
The Village of Gilberts had the 807th highest lottery ticket net sales statewide per capita for the month of April 2016 -- up 4 spots from its March ranking.
Illinois lawmakers are using a seemingly surreptitious way to give themselves pay raises: creating new and useless committees for which they are automatically paid an extra $10,326 as chairmen, a Chicago-based think tank is arguing.