An inflation-proof pocket of Illinois is about to burst.
The fees to get a law license and to certify a document in Illinois are increasing in 2016 – for the first time in 1919.
Respectively, they’ll go up from $5 to $50 and from $1 to $5.
At Bradley University in Peoria, Joshua Lewer is the McCord Professor of Executive Management Development and says some inflation is necessary to make the economy go.

Lewer said one of the aspects of a growing economy is it’s warm, and a warm inflation is a sign the economy is moving forward.

Lewer says the Consumer Price Index tells us that 2015 prices should be fourteen times what the 1919 prices were; thus, the new prices remain a bargain.

In other State news, fewer silos, more partnerships. That’s what a mental health trade association says it’s taken away from presentations from Rauner administration members at a conference this week.

Community Behavioral Healthcare Association CEO Marvin Lindsey says the Illinois Department of Human Services secretary criticized an across-the-board approach to cuts and said “hard choices” would help prioritize things for the budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2016.

Lindsey said the state’s current social climate is destroying the infrastructure of the IDHS, adding they’ve built up a system over the years that is starting to become dismantled. He said it seems there’s no end in sight.

While you would obviously go to an emergency room for a broken arm, Lindsey says people in need of mental health services are diverted elsewhere or placed on months-long waiting lists.