What's "Semantic Drift"? Evanston high school parents will soon be able to ask their kids.

Rep Michelle Mussman (D-Schaumburg) wants to raise property taxes on businesses and some homeowners.

Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston), candidate for Illinois governor, paid $8,439 in property taxes in 2016, or 26 percent of his $32,568 adjusted gross income, according to tax returns he made public this week.

The district administrator who spearheaded New Trier High School's controversial, mandatory all-school "white privilege" seminar says he isn't planning to organize one next year.

Pedro Noguera, a UCLA professor and leading advocate of public schools establishing lower standards for black and hispanic students, will lay out his philosophy to North Shore teachers and students in Highland Park Monday.

In 2015, the City of Chicago’s two employee pension funds paid out $999 million to 29,286 retirees.

Glen Ellyn, pop. 27,761, is home to three thousand more people than Rolling Meadows. It has $41 million less firefighter pension debt.

Tokyo has 13.29 million people. Rosemont has just over 4,200.But at $260,000 per year, Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens outearns his counterpart in Japan’s largest city, Yuriko Koike, by nine percent.

Maine Township District 207 School Board candidate Aurora Austriaco has friends in high places.

Since 2010, Stand for Children Illinois has lobbied for charter schools, for reforming teacher tenure and ensuring more students take standardized tests.

New Trier High School District 203 has paid $108,583 in consulting fees to second group dedicated to spreading a philosophy of “white privilege” to U.S. high school teachers, according to a North Cook News analysis of district financial records.

This semester, New Trier Social Studies Teacher Spiro Bolos has lectured his students on “structural racism” and how it has created a “racial wealth gap.”

Republicans say that, in Illinois, there exists a democracy of one — Mike Madigan, to be exact — with the longtime House speaker managing affairs as if the state were a dictatorship rather than a system of egalitarianism.

Term limits are not a short-term solution to Illinois' financial problems, and when or if they are implemented, such limits must be done right or the result will be more of the same, co-founders of a conservative nonprofit said during a recent Chicago-based radio broadcast.

The BossMadigan.com website has featured another Democratic member.

With Illinois facing a "death spiral," noted economist Brian Wesbury cannot understand why Gov. Bruce Rauner hasn’t spoken out against recent talk of an added tax hike, which he believes would exacerbate the issue.

Illinois residents are being slammed by ever-rising taxes, from a tax on soda pop in Cook County to a citywide tax increase of 0.5 percent in Danville.

One day after his annual budget address before a joint session of the Illinois legislature, Gov. Bruce Rauner provided an update to his speech.

Remembered as “a titan,” a “war hero,” a “true gentleman” and above all as a skillful, diplomatic peacemaker, longtime U.S. Rep. Bob Michel has passed away at the age of 93, Capitol Fax announced.

New Trier High School District 203 paid $88,614 to a consultancy to teach its staff why “whiteness” causes black and hispanic students to score lower on standardized tests.