On September 17, 2007, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Ernst & Young, and the Office of Tax Policy Research at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business brought together over 120 business people, academics, and public policymakers to examine the changing dynamics of state...

On April 4, 2007, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the National Tax Association, and the University of Illinois’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs brought together a distinguished group of state tax experts to discuss emerging trends in business taxation.

The future of higher education and its relationship to economic growth were the focus of a one-day conference at the Chicago Fed on November 2, 2005. Cosponsored by the bank, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, the event brought together over...

On March 12, 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Civic Federation held a forum on retiree health care for state and local government employees. The participants focused on strategies to finance and administer other post-employment benefits, or OPEB.