Tinley Park’s sales tax rate, now 9.75%, will increase with hikes approved in the home-rule sales tax and a grocery taxes.
Category: Politics
Charges dropped against Harvey Ald. Colby Chapman, arrested at April City Council meeting
The Cook County state’s attorney’s office dropped charges against Harvey 2nd Ward Ald. Colby Chapman, following her April 28 arrest.
President Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin told him that Russia will respond to Ukrainian attack on airfields
U.S. President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him “very strongly” in a phone call Wednesday that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields.
What is the CBO? A look at the small office inflaming debate over President Donald Trump’s tax bill
A small government office with some 275 employees has found itself caught in the political crossfire as Congress debates President Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill.”
President Donald Trump tax bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit and leave 10.9 million more uninsured, CBO says
President Donald Trump’s big bill making its way through Congress will cut taxes by $3.75 trillion but also increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
US and Europe trade negotiators say progress but no breakthroughs on tariff talks in Paris
Europe and the United States say progress has been made but there were no breakthroughs during a meeting in Paris to negotiate a settlement of a tense tariff spat with worldwide economic ramifications between two global economic powerhouses.
US- and Israeli-backed group pauses food delivery in Gaza after deadly shootings
An Israeli- and U.S.-backed group paused food delivery at its three distribution sites in the Gaza Strip after health officials said dozens of Palestinians were killed in a series of shootings near the sites this week. Israeli strikes across the territory, meanwhile, killed 26 people overnight and into Wednesday, officials said.
Boulder community to come together for vigil after firebombing attack that injured 12
As members of the Boulder community reeled from a firebombing attack that injured 12 people demonstrating for the release of Israeli hostages, residents prepared to come together for a vigil Wednesday.
South Korea’s new President Lee vows to pursue talks with North and bolster ties with US and Japan
South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung vowed Wednesday to restart dormant talks with North Korea and bolster a trilateral partnership with the U.S. and Japan, as he laid out key policy goals for his single, five-year term.
The Dutch government has collapsed. What happens next?
Dutch opposition parties called Wednesday for fresh elections as soon as possible, a day after anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders sparked the collapse of the country’s four-party coalition government.