From Our President Greising: If Pritzker Wants Real Pension Reform, He May Need to Amend His ‘Fantasy’ Swipe Pritzker’s plan would replace Illinois’ flat tax with a graduated income tax projected to increase revenue by $3.6 billion a year, chiefly by hiking tax rates on the top 3% of all earners. Feb 21, 2020 9:00 AM
From Our President Greising: Can TIFs Promote Equity? Lightfoot Aims to Find Out. The mayor has a lot of work to do before the city can plausibly claim its tax-increment financing investments are advancing the cause of racial justice in any meaningful way. Feb 7, 2020 4:00 PM
From Our President Greising: CPD’s Charlie Beck May Be ‘Interim’ Top Cop, But His Impact Will Be Lasting Lightfoot wanted a change-maker. She got one. And the changes Beck is making will set the Chicago Police Department in a new direction that is long overdue. Feb 7, 2020 8:00 AM
From Our President Greising: Pritzker Must Step Into Leading Role in Reforming Illinois Government. The Moment Demands It. After federal investigators raided the offices of Sen. Martin Sandoval, D-Chicago, Pritzker lamented that the alleged wrongdoers were “throwing obstacles in the way of us accomplishing pension consolidation and lowering taxes, property taxes and other things in the state." Jan 24, 2020 9:45 AM
From Our President Greising: How Do You Undo a System That Rewards ‘Loyalty' Over Public Service? The latest of a series of Springfield ethics reform commissions seems predisposed to focus on lobbying, but that's only one of the roots of Illinois' corrupt politics. Jan 10, 2020 3:30 PM
From Our President Greising: Illinois Scores Early With Legal Weed but Must Learn From Other States With the question of whether and when to build a pot industry now behind us, the questions of how, and how much, are still very much in play. They’re the questions that matter as Illinois’ marijuana saga continues to play out. Jan 10, 2020 2:20 PM
From Our President Greising: Mayor Lightfoot’s Call for ComEd Hearings Sounds Good, But ... ComEd has billions on the line with its city contract. And a must-see hearing could educate the city government and Chicago residents and possibly do some good. But it also could turn into a meaningless circus. Dec 13, 2019 11:35 AM
From Our President Greising: A Few Reasons to be Optimistic about Property Tax Relief. Really. A working group of lawmakers is seeking ways to cut the state's property taxes—and there actually is cause to think they have a shot at making it work. Here's why. Dec 7, 2019 11:10 AM
From Our President Greising: The Culture of Corruption in Illinois Won’t End Easily It will require a holistic approach, one that is strategic and systematic, to cure Illinois and Chicago of corruption. Nov 15, 2019 9:05 AM
From Our President Greising | Lightfoot to Pritzker on Pensions: It's Your Move "The practical matter is that if you don't rein in the size of the growth in pension liabilities, all of these other things are just nibbling around the edges." Updated: Nov 11, 2019 @ 10:07 PM
