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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


The Weekly: 2024 election preview, Bessie Rhodes uncertainty, response to House committee antisemitism report

November 3, 2024

What’s on the ballot for Evanston voters this election season? What will happen to the seventh and eighth grade classes at the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies? The Daily answers these questions...

Illinois residents will vote on the Fair Tax referendum this November, which would  change the state’s tax system from the current flat tax system to a graduated income tax.

Evanston residents weigh in on the Fair Tax Amendment

October 1, 2020

This November, Illinois residents will decide if they want the state to change its tax system from the current flat tax system to a graduated income tax. The Illinois Fair Tax referendum would introduce...

A voter casts her ballot on Tuesday. Illinois voters passed a constitutional amendment that limits how legislators can use funds from transportation revenue.

Lockbox amendment referendum passes on Illinois ballot

November 9, 2016

Illinois passed a constitutional amendment that will block legislators from using transportation revenue funds from being reallocated to anything outside their outlined purpose. The Illinois Transportation...

State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) hosted a town hall meeting at the Evanston Public Library on Monday. He discussed issues related to income tax and pension reform.

Biss discusses state income tax, pension funding at Evanston town hall

April 21, 2014

State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) discussed changing Illinois’ flat-rate income tax to a graduated one in a town hall meeting Monday night. Biss called the present code “idiosyncratic,” telling...

State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) explains his pension reform plan to 300 people at a town hall meeting in Wilmette on Monday. Biss is among a group of Illinois Democrats sponsoring two bills to reform the state's underfunded pension system.

Local Democrats call for pension reform

February 4, 2013

Illinois needs to implement structural reforms in order to solve its pension problem, a group of local Democrats said at a town hall meeting Monday night. State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston),Rep. Robyn...

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