Articles By Author Dennis Byrne
Articles by Dennis Byrne
18 article(s) found.
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
Hemorrhaging red ink, the Chicago-area mass transit system has avoided yet another threatened "doomsday" of fare increases and service cuts ... by borrowing ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
Every year, folks in Crestwood, Illinois, a suburb southwest of Chicago, open their mail to find a check paying for half their property taxes.
Who would ...(read more)
08/01/2007 12:00 AM
A groundbreaking effort to switch a public employee pension system from a defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan is underway in Chicago.
The ...(read more)
06/01/2007 12:00 AM
Months after Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley began promising taxpayers they would not foot the bill for the 2016 Olympics, the city secretly drafted a plan ...(read more)
06/01/2007 12:00 AM
A plan for construction of a temporary stadium was central to Chicago's winning bid to host the 2016 Olympics.Chicago's U.S. rival was Los Angeles. The ...(read more)
12/01/2006 12:00 AM
In Illinois' own mini-version of Boston's Big Dig, the costs to rebuild Chicago's Dan Ryan Expressway have nearly doubled from original estimates, to about ...(read more)
09/01/2006 12:00 AM
For the first time in a decade, America's second largest county--Cook County, Illinois--has been forced to authorize a multimillion-dollar line of credit ...(read more)
04/01/2006 12:00 AM
In the face of reported disinterest and outright opposition, the Washington state Department of Agriculture has withdrawn a proposal to require farmers ...(read more)
01/01/2006 12:00 AM
Finding no other palatable source for additional revenues to balance his 2006 budget, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has settled on a big increase in city ...(read more)
12/01/2005 12:00 AM
Illinois taxpayers who may wonder what happens to the millions of dollars of state-imposed fees that finance hundreds of special funds--from "used tire ...(read more)
10/01/2005 12:00 AM
Claims in the media that global warming is making hurricanes worse are running into a gale of their own from scientists who specialize in studying the tropical ...(read more)
09/01/2005 12:00 AM
Chicago public school officials on July 27 approved what they called a "bare bones" budget that imposes a maximum allowable 1.9 percent property tax increase, ...(read more)
08/01/2005 12:00 AM
U.S. motorists will be required by the federal government to sharply increase their use of the corn-based gasoline additive ethanol in the coming years. ...(read more)
07/01/2005 12:00 AM
The perennial effort to shift the burden of funding education to the state income tax and away from local property taxes again failed in the Illinois General ...(read more)
07/01/2005 12:00 AM
The Illinois State Constitution has been the source of arguments over school funding in Illinois for decades.
Proponents of increased state funding of ...(read more)
06/01/2005 12:00 AM
Trying to balance the Illinois state budget by shifting highway funds into other government programs is creating a statewide “road crisis,” an unusual coalition ...(read more)
06/01/2005 12:00 AM
The "Rough Roads Ahead" report issued by the Transportation for Illinois Coalition said the effects of bad roads ripple through the economy. For example, ...(read more)
06/01/2005 12:00 AM
Diversions of state highway funds toward other purposes have become such a problem that Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes warned against them in his 2004 quarterly ...(read more)
