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.

Illinois faces a structural budget crisis: tax hikes, not economic growth, are keeping the state solvent – and that strategy is running out of runway.

Today, you can bet on anything. I mean anything. Sports. Politics. The Oscars. The existence of aliens. Even warfare.

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

As the school year winds down, families across the Sauk Valley begin the seasonal shift into summer routines. While the break offers a well-earned change of pace, it also presents a challenge: keeping kids active, engaged and connected.

On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as a day to honor the nation’s mothers.

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