Even if the math isn’t perfect, it helps to understand promises and projections versus the likely reality.

Remember: the Bears have a stadium. No one forced the team to spend almost $300 million to buy an old horse track without any concrete development plans.

To be fair, Frank Mautino isn’t the only person to benefit from these structures, just a convenient, timely proxy.

"On a single receipting day this month following the April 15 income tax deadline, more than $1.5 billion in income tax receipts were collected."

If approved, the bill would put a three-day retention limit on captured data absent its role as evidence for potential criminal prosecution.

Obviously, $125 million is real money. But the way it shakes out for individual customers is almost negligible.

Because the statutory language clearly applies to businesses, government units obviously are excluded.

Scudder deftly explains the case history and why Madigan’s appellate arguments failed, routinely addressing what a reasonable jury could believe based on everything shown at trial.

Lawmakers have filed more than 11,400 bills and resolutions since the current General Assembly started in January 2025.