Homeless youth, service providers and state lawmakers rallied for a fair budget at the Thompson Center on Wednesday. Progress Illinois provides highlights from the event.
It's an opportunity of a lifetime for Chicago fast-food worker Adriana Alvarez, who is in Washington today to welcome Pope Francis to the United States.
Progress Illinois breaks down Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2016 budget address and rounds up reaction to his fiscal proposals, including a nearly $600 million property tax hike to cover police and fire pensions and school construction costs.
If current conditions prevail, women won't be paid as much as men until the year 2059, according to a report by the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
Dyett protesters, who ended their hunger strike over the weekend after 34 days, detailed their next steps in the fight for "educational justice" in the city of Chicago Monday afternoon.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's CCAP restrictions, which will shut out an estimated 90 percent of new applicants from the program, "will harm the Illinois economy and cost taxpayers more in the long run," SEIU* Healthcare Illinois Vice President James Muhammad said on a Monday morning conference call.
He was joined on the call by small business advocates from the Main Street Alliance and Small Business Advocacy Council as well as a policy expert from Innovation Illinois, a Chicago-based progressive think tank.
Advocates for low-income working families in need of affordable daycare are sounding the alarm over the potential economic impacts of the Rauner administration's 