The Issues | Logan County Republicans

These are the facts behind why we vote Republican: the state's own budget books and pension reports, the Census, the Tax Foundation, the Energy Information Administration, the Auditor General and the rating agencies. Every figure links to its source. Where a number is our own arithmetic, we say so. How we check our facts, and every source in one place.

1.88%property tax on a typical Illinois home, tied for highest in the U.S.Tax Foundation

47.8%funded: Illinois' five state pension systems, $143.5 billion short.COGFA

$55.9BGeneral Funds budget for FY2027, the largest in state history.GOMB

+39%Ameren Illinois summer supply price vs. summer 2024.Citizens Utility Board

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Property, income, gasTaxes1.88%property tax on a typical Illinois home, tied for highest in the U.S.The biggest billPensions47.8%funded: Illinois' five state pension systems, $143.5 billion short.The $55.9 billion budgetWhere the money goes$55.9BGeneral Funds budget for FY2027, the largest in state history.Ameren countryThe light bill+39%Ameren Illinois summer supply price vs. summer 2024.January 1, 2027Tolls and the gas tax$0.75 → $1.20I-PASS at the O'Hare plazas on January 1, 2027.Who stays, who goesJobs and people leaving456,378more people moved from Illinois to other states than moved in, April 2020 to July 2025.What we spend, what we getSchools45%of Illinois school money comes from property taxes. Nationally: 27%.Three years without cash bailPublic safety and the SAFE-T Act8%of people on electronic monitoring in Cook County were AWOL: 244 of 3,048 (May 2026).Audits and convictionsFraud and waste$5.24Bin unemployment overpayments, 2019 to 2022, per the Auditor General.Fifty years, both partiesHow Illinois got here20 of 24years of Democratic control of the governor's office and both chambers, 2003 to 2026.The grade on the state's IOUCredit ratingsLowestrated state with Moody's and S&P, even after this year's upgrades.

The record

What the governor and lieutenant governor have signed, voted for and said on the record, from public records and mainstream reporting. Every item is sourced, and the parts that cut the other way are in it too.

Governor and Lt. GovernorThe recordPublic actions of Illinois' governor and lieutenant governor, from the state's own records and mainstream reporting. Every item sourced.

Close to home

Logan County is not Chicago. I-55 is not a toll road, and the light company is Ameren. But the gas tax, the income tax, the pension bill, the school formula and the prison in Lincoln are all decided in Springfield. That is why this election is not only a county race. Keep Lincoln Working · Games · Our candidates

Springfield's choices land on Logan County.

Every race on the ballot counts, from the County Board to the Governor. Vote early at the Courthouse, Room 20, or on November 3.

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