Taxpayers contributed 73.2 percent of the $962,435 the East Moline Police Pension Fund brought in last year, or $2.77 for every $1 from pension members.
At Kennedy King College, 26.3 percent of borrowers who started repaying student loans in 2014 defaulted on those loans by the end of 2016, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of the latest disclosure from the U.S. Department of Education.
Illinois' economy is in trouble, leading many business owners to wonder what the future holds if they stay in the state, and Bill Fawell, the Galena Republican running in the 17th Congressional District, believes that they are right to be worried.