In an editorial today in the Chicago Tribune, a leader with Stand Up! Chicago detailed her thoughts as to why corporate tax breaks, like the ones granted the CME Group and the Chicago Board Options Exchange in December, not only fail to create jobs, but are also detrimental to those that already exist — along with the state's long-term fiscal health.
Earlier this week, Stand Up! Chicago took their grievances with corporate welfare to the CME Group's doorstep with an interesting gift in tow — a golden toilet. Read more »
Demonstrators at a National Nurses United rally at Daley Plaza in
downtown Chicago today said that they were nervous violence might
overshadow the nurses’ message of economic equality in what was billed
as the second biggest event in a week of NATO 
At their massive downtown Chicago rally today, the National Nurses
United union stuck with a script they developed prior to President
Barack Obama relocating this weekend’s G8 economic summit from Chicago
to Camp David – advocacy for developed nations to impose a tax on
financial transactions. 
A group of about 150 Chicagoans belonging to 15 community and labor organizations drove to Detroit Tuesday evening to join in a protest today of General Electric’s tax breaks at the company’s GM Renaissance Center during the company's annual meeting.
Mike Nikodem and his wife Jo Anne own a bakery in Naperville and they said they paid more in taxes last year than some of Illinois’ largest corporations. The Nikodems recently joined the Illinois Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a local watchdog organization, in pushing for tax reform legislation that would
That's the number of jobs lost each time the state reduces general fund spending by just 1 percent, according to a new report by Make Wall Street Pay Illinois and the Alliance for a Just Society. 
The city announced that CME Group, Inc. financial exchange
elected to turn down $15 million in Tax Increment Financing, or TIF,
money. 