Fahner goes too far trashing pension reform

For the past few years, the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago has been one of the most feared participants in the state’s pension reform debate.Ty Fahner, a former Illinois attor...

Thursday, June 9, 2011 04:11 pm

State taps charity funds to pay its bills

Donors thought money would help the homeless, the hungry and disease research

By Rachel Wells

Over the last two years, the state of Illinois in order to pay its basic bills has seized more than $1.6 million from at least 15 different “charity” funds, to which Illinoisans voluntaril...