Mike Madigan

Budgets/Taxes

Higher Property Taxes, Lower Home Values and Increased School Spending Plague Illinoisans

written by Nancy Thorner

Budgets/Taxes Featured Politics
Taxes Out of Control and Out of Bounds

by Nancy Thorner December 4, 2013

All of Illinois’ neighboring states were in the top half of Chief Executive Magazine’s 2012 list of best states for business. Illinois was rated third worst.

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