November 2012

50-plus years of data on marriage, divorce, and annulment in Illinois shows that people are getting married way less frequently than they used to... but they're also getting divorced less often, perhaps because they're getting married later, and older. Read more

By almost every measure, the nation's growing income-inequality gap has hit Illinois harder than almost every state. It's hit the poorest 20 percent of residents the hardest, whose incomes didn't grow at all from the late 1970s to the mid-2000s. Read more

Pat Quinn's adorable serpentine representation of the state's most critical fiscal issue has been lamented as half-assed and juvenile... but Squeezy's a lot catchier than actuarial analysis, and more relevant to the problem than the recent constitutional amendment. Read more