•September 27, 2017•

By Jim Nowlan
NP Guest Columnist

The Wall Street Journal has been relentless in its criticism of Illinois in recent years, largely because of our budget and political problems. To read its editorial pages, you would think we had contracted The Plague.

For a book I co-authored a couple of years on “Fixing Illinois” (University of Illinois Press, 2014), I was invited to visit Rochelle, in the central-northern part of our state. This small city belies the rap that business won’t come to Illinois.

Below is an op-ed I submitted recently to the WSJ. The short piece is an illustration of how I think we must change the narrative about Illinois and stop flailing ourselves with barbed whips:     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.