(The Center Square) – A former U.S. transportation secretary says Downstate Illinois residents should help fund Chicago ...

As frugality takes hold, food shoppers, despite incomes, are making conscious choices about where to shop, a Harris Poll ...

Arlington Heights implements new streaming tax, retains grocery tax Arlington Heights will levy a new streaming tax, and keep ...

Arlington Heights will levy a new streaming tax, and keep an old grocery tax, village board members decided Monday. The new 5 ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday pointed to a handful of tax-the-rich options he might consider to balance Chicago’s next budget, among them a corporate head tax. Johnson faces a daunting ...

Even moderate proposals are drawing resistance. Some council members have refused to replace the now-expired 1-percent state grocery tax with a city version.

Surveys reported by city staff indicate that the vast majority of communities in the Chicago area either have already imposed the grocery sales tax or plan to do so. But Evanston’s immediate neighbors ...

Second, most other communities reportedly are imposing the same local tax — to replace one the legislature has abolished at the state level. Surveys reported by city staff indicate that the vast ...

Chicago must decide by Oct. 1 whether to continue the decades-old one percent grocery tax, which could cost the city between $60 and $80 million in revenue for the 2026 fiscal year.

A proposed 1% grocery tax in Chicago got off to a rocky start today in the City Council as soon as it was introduced. Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, had been waiting to use a parliamentary maneuver to ...

In Chicago’s Food Deserts, Community-Led Markets Fill the Void as Big Chains Falter Chicago officials have backed away from plans for a city-owned grocery store, and private chains have proven ...