The Illinois General Assembly passed a budget Sunday for fiscal year 2026 that increased funding for some state programs that support child care for ...

Trump's 2026 spending plan serves as a starting point for negotiations with lawmakers and will likely change as the ...

The Illinois General Assembly passed a $55.2 billion dollar budget for 2026. It includes a boost for public schools, but not ...

Both the RTA and Chicago Transit Authority have meetings scheduled next week where talks will presumably focus on how the ...

Newsom’s is a unique strategy, unless he’s merely bumbling along with hopes of becoming the de facto leader of the Trump ...

Several Republican state legislators say they will be irreparably harmed if a court doesn’t stop the state from enacting the ...

Illinois’ court-based rental assistance program for tenants struggling to pay rent and their landlords will stop accepting ...

About 200 municipalities have plans to reimpose Illinois’ grocery tax locally, and the state’s largest city may be among ...

The Republican budget bill the U.S. House approved last month includes penalties for providing health care to some immigrants ...

Entering a legislative session amid questions about whether he’d run for a third term, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker outlined an ambitious agenda that ended with mixed results. In a State of the State ...

In February, the judge declined to extend the injunction to credit unions, though it was extended to out-of-state banks that ...

In the days following the end of the session, Illinois State Senator Dave Koehler of Peoria looked back at the tense spring ...