Giving almost no time for public review, Illinois Democrats pushed through a $55.2 billion budget for next fiscal year late ...

A new $55.2 billion state budget may be more significant for what is not in it than what is. Namely, an agreement on how to pay for the more than $770 million dollar shortfall the Regional Transit ...

The Illinois General Assembly sent Chicago transit agencies closer to the fiscal cliff, adjourning without sending a funding ...

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

Illinois lawmakers have approved a $55.2 billion budget with new taxes on sports betting and nicotine, plus cuts to immigrant ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State lawmakers passed the budget for the next fiscal year, meeting their midnight deadline. Leaders worked late into the evening with just minutes to spare last night to pass the ...

Democrats in control of the Illinois General Assembly flexed their supermajorities to muscle through a $55.2 billion state ...

A day after the budget was passed out of the House Executive Committee, the Senate held their own subject matter hearing on ...

Despite a long process of negotiation, several important groups still oppose the bills, including representatives of ...

Illinois taxpayers are on the hook for over a billion dollars of tax and collection increases to fund a $55 billion budget, ...