Wonder how many Lake County lawmakers actually read this document that received little public review and was hastily adopted ...

Budget talks took up most of the political bandwidth in the waning hours of the legislative session, leaving the big transit ...

The mayor of Chicago has followed the lead of some Illinois state lawmakers by connecting state and local budget challenges ...

SPRINGFIELD, IL Following the passage of Governor JB Pritzker’s seventh consecutive balanced budget, the State of Illinois ...

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

The ban was supposed to take effect on July 1, but lawmakers voted with strong bipartisan majorities Sunday morning to pass ...

WGLT spoke to state Rep. Sharon Chung, a Democrat from Bloomington, about what got done and what didn't this spring.

Under the new budget Illinois' General Assembly passed, graduated rates from 20% to 40% will replace the 15% flat tax on ...

Chicago-area transit agencies face a $771 million budget gap. Absent state action, they’re warning about a 40 percent ...

City Budget Director Annette Guzman said the City Council "must reaffirm the grocery tax before the state’s deadline of Oct.

Illinois lawmakers approved the FY 2026 budget over the weekend as the session came to an end. This year, there are small ...

As the state of Illinois prepares to eliminate a statewide tax on groceries, the city of Chicago could join dozens of suburbs ...