Regional Snapshot Report | April 2007
Client: Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.
A CGS staff team worked collaboratively with the client to produce the first in a series of reports designed to give the general public a broad overview of issues facing the entire Chicago metropolitan region.
State of Working Illinois 2007 Executive Summary | December 2007
Funders: Joyce Foundation and the Woods Fund of Chicago
A CGS team works with the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability to produce this biannual report that summarizes major labor market trends throughout Illinois. Include a link to the executive summary, and a link to the SWIL home page for more information.
Illinois Policy Survey | 2008
Illinois Policy Survey, now in its 21st year, is designed to provide residents and state leaders with systematic and representative information on public attitudes, values and expectations with respect to the performance of elected officials and policy issues facing Illinois. Current print copy (and surveys for previous years) are available upon request.
Northern Illinois Marketfacts | 2008
Northern Illinois Market Facts is an annual compilation of economic and demographic data for a fourteen-county area (Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Grundy, Jo Daviess, Kendall, LaSalle, Lee, Ogle, Putnam, Stephenson, Whiteside and Winnebago counties) in northern Illinois. A regional overview and maps are included. Print copies for the current edition (and some editions from previous years) are available for $15 per copy, plus shipping and handling.
Networking: The Key to 21st Century Government
Self-funded Policy Profile written by three national leaders in the field of public administration.
How Truancy is Cheating Our Future
This report examines the rate of chronic truancy among students enrolled in Rockford School District 205. The report then develops a series of conservative estimates of the short-term and long-term social costs incurred by this behavior. Some of the costs are experienced directly by the students who engage in chronic truancy, and others are experienced by other residents and businesses of the region.
The Contributions of Older Residents and Retirees to the Illinois Economy |
The number of older residents and retirees in the state of Illinois is growing quickly. Fueled partly by the demographics of the post-World War II Baby Boom generation (i.e., those born between 1946 and 1964) and partly by the benefits of better health care, more and more people are living longer. And, as people mature, their improved health allows them to continue making contributions at an age when their parents and grandparents often were no longer able to do so. This brief report summarizes available data that describe how older residents and retirees are making contributions to the quality of life in Illinois.
Illinois Rural Health Plan | 2007
This plan provides a demographic and systemwide context for considering the role of the small rural hospital in addressing the health care needs of residents throughout Illinois.
City of Peoria: Comparative Fiscal Profile Analysis | November 2007
Community Colleges in Illinois
Universities and Regional Economic Development