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As part of the FY2016 budget approval process during fall of 2015, the City of Chicago for the first time imposed a waste removal fee of $9.50 per month on approximately 600,000 residents already receiving waste removal services provided by City of Chicago employees. Chicago residences receiving...
09.16.16
Decisions by two of the largest State of Illinois pension funds to reduce their expected rates of return on investment have garnered headlines , but they were not...
08.05.16
The City of Chicago recently released its mid-year Annual Financial Analysis for 2016 , which provides financial estimates for the City’s fiscal year ending on December 31, 2016 and a forecast for the next fiscal...
06.03.16
One year after passing the Illinois General Assembly, a bill that puts the City of Chicago’s Police and Fire pension funds on a 40-year plan to reach 90% funding has become law . Illinois Governor...
04.28.16
The City of Chicago and Cook County recently joined a number of states nationwide in a move to exempt female hygiene products from the sales tax.
At the Local Level
On March 16, 2016 the Chicago City Council...
04.14.16
The Civic Federation co-hosted a conference with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on April 4, 2016 entitled, “Medicaid Expansion and the Affordable Care Act: A Fiscal Checkup.” Experts, practitioners and academics from around the country gathered to discuss the choices states have made with...
03.31.16
On March 24, 2016 the Illinois Supreme Court filed its opinion affirming the Cook County Circuit Court’s...
02.25.16
This annual brief provides a compilation of selected consumer taxes, including rates and descriptions, in place in the City of Chicago as of May 1, 2016. It includes such taxes as the sales tax,...
12.18.15
FY2016 Budget Season Summary
December 3, 2015 marked the end of the budget season for the eight local governments monitored by the Civic Federation. These governments include: the City Colleges of...
