State lawmakers built Illinois’ record $55.2 billion budget for 2026 on gimmicks, one-time fixes and piecemeal tax hikes.

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ latest budget misses the mark in several key areas, according to one independent nonprofit fiscal ...

Lawmakers approved a budget and finished their spring session. But they might be coming back sooner than expected.

Republican Illinois Senate members are suing their Democratic peers over the last-minute rush to OK a $55 billion state ...

Legislative leaders need to start enforcing earlier deadlines for giant issues like omnibus energy proposal so they can deal ...

The transit agencies will each run out of pandemic relief funding at various points in 2026, creating deficits in their budgets if lawmakers don’t find new funding sources.

Recent migrants paid $10.1 billion in taxes but required $19.3 billion in services, with education and shelter driving the ...

With electric prices going up, advocates tried — and failed — to reform the energy sector - “Heading into the end of the legislative ...

As property taxes continue to rise, Illinois officials consider bills that could offer some relief to homeowners In Cook ...

With emergency federal aid drying up and ridership still below pre-pandemic levels, transit agencies in Chicago and ...

Republicans have set an ambitious deadline of trying to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda through Congress by the fourth of July, kickstarting an intensive negotiation in the US Senate whe ...

The world’s smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily ...