The "chicken bill", which allows Illinois small poultry farmers to sell products beyond their farms and reduce red tape, is heading to the governor's desk.

The transit agencies will each run out of pandemic relief funding at various points in 2026, creating deficits in their ...

Michael Madigan’s sentencing hearing will cap the most aggressive, expansive corruption investigation in Chicago since the ...

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

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

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

Springfield was right to delay rushed transit funding plans. Now lawmakers must get serious about reforming Chicago’s transit ...

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

A last-ditch plan to save CTA, Metra and Pace fell apart in Springfield. Here’s how political divisions, rushed taxes and ...

Approving the bad idea of sweetening Tier 2 pensions for state employees hired after Jan. 1, 2011, would only have driven the state’s horrendous public-pension debt deeper into the hole. At the same ...

Last weekend the state enacted a $55.2 billion General Fund budget for its upcoming 2026 fiscal year. A sizable chunk of that ...