Illinois residents pay up to 76 percent more to attend a Big Ten school and up to 49 percent more to attend a Mid-America Conference school than their counterparts in other states, according to a Higher Education Tribune’s analysis of in-state tuition at public colleges and universities in 10 Midwest states.
Government pension funds in Alton, Belleville and Granite City depended most on taxpayer contributions to make ends meet in 2016, according to the Illinois Department of Insurance.