The budget sent to Pritzker included a 5% pay raise for state lawmakers, to $98,304. State law sets the pay for legislators ...

Transit agency officials in Chicagoland met this week and formally began the process of planning for next year’s budget, ...

You know it’s a bad budget when it’s based on nearly $1 billion in tax increases and enhancements,” a Republican lawmaker ...

Transit agencies in northern Illinois are facing a $771 million annual combined budget gap — and lawmakers did not pass ...

Across the country, relatively few disruptions were reported during protests and marches where the mood ranged from joyful to ...

The push for an energy reform package grew out of a growing sense of concern that the state won’t be able to meet its ambitious climate goals. The rise of power-hungry data centers has placed ...

Legislation to reform mass transit around Chicago passed the Illinois Senate 32-22 shortly late Saturday, but the measure — ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. JB Pritzker signed Illinois' fiscal year 2026 budget into law Monday, taking shots at President Donald Trump's budget management to defend hard choices state lawmakers were ...

The Senate GOP’s budget plan also contains a surprise new way for the state to offer $600 million toward a new suburban ...

We found one small-town Pride festival in every red state. And each one reminds us that queer people are everywhere—and ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blocked rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, from obtaining and working in state jobs and thereby ... and is likely to draw legal attention, NBC reported.