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https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/minimum-wage-hike-overdue/
Via the Chicago Sun-Times Chicago, let’s raise the minimum wage. Let’s make life better for our lowest-wage workers and those a notch above. Let’s hike a minimum wage that has eroded so deeply it is now, in real buying power,…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/attorney-illinois-needs-court-appointed-monitor-oversee-idot-hires/
Via the State Journal-Register CHICAGO — A Chicago attorney and anti-corruption campaigner is stressing that a court-appointed monitor is needed to ensure the state’s Department of Transportation is in compliance with political hiring bans. Michael Shakman’s filing Monday in federal court comes…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/expert-need-redistricting-reform/
Via Credit WSIU By Bill Wheelhouse Brian Gaines has watched Illinois politics for 20 years. He says the current system of drawing legislative and congressional maps is bad and he hopes reformers can do something before the next re-map in…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/council-passes-public-campaign-financing/
Via Montgomery Community Media The Montgomery County Council today unanimously enacted Bill 16-14, which will allow candidates for County Council and County Executive to qualify for partial public financing for their campaigns. This is the first measure of its type…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/keep-heat-political-corruption-2/
Via Chicago Sun-Times Editorial The last year has been relatively quiet on the political corruption front. U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon has pushed only a handful of cases alleging wrongdoing by local pols, though he may have more in the works….
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/rauner-courts-black-votes-1m-investment/
Via Chicago Tribune By John Chase and Bob Secter, Tribune reporters Gregg Brown never met Bruce Rauner before the late summer day the wealthy Republican candidate for governor came calling with $1 million worth of personal checks and an army…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/brian-gaines-illinois-needs-redistricting-reform/
Via the State Journal-Register Illinois voters will not get the chance to approve or reject a new process for drawing electoral districts this fall. Hundreds of thousands signed petitions to put a constitutional amendment revising that process onto the November…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/chicago-pension-crisis-balloons-underscoring-calls-reform/
Via Chicago Sun-Times Chicago’s unfunded pension obligations have ballooned to $37.3 billion — a more than three-fold increase since 2003 — because of inadequate employer contributions, declining investment income and a shrinking base of active employees, a taxpayers’ watchdog group…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/emanuel-prods-sister-agencies-mandate-13-hour-minimum-wage/
Via Chicago Sun-Times Four weeks ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel signed an executive order requiring city contractors and subcontractors to increase the “living wage” paid to their employees by nearly 9 percent — from $11.93 to $13 an hour. Now, Emanuel…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/labor-using-illinois-minimum-wage-question-drive-dem-turnout/
Via Chicago Sun-Times WASHINGTON — Major unions are pumping big money into a November ballot question on raising Illinois’ minimum wage, which in reality is a political tool to energize Democratic voters who are also more than likely to vote…