The head of one of Chicago’s top nonpartisan government research organizations said lawmakers made too many short-term ...

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

Illinois’ court-based rental assistance program for tenants struggling to pay rent and their landlords will stop accepting ...

The $55 billion budget plan unveiled Friday night by Democratic leadership would include new taxes on gambling as well as ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a $55 billion budget with tax hikes on smoking and gambling, but left proposals on transit and a ...

The narratives around Illinois' budget have sharply diverged, with Democrats touting the paydown of debts and credit rating ...

State lawmakers are still ironing out the details of a $1 billion tax package with just a few hours left in the legislative ...

Democratic members of the General Assembly had only seven minutes to spare before a key constitutional deadline to pass a ...

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

Several Republican state legislators say they will be irreparably harmed if a court doesn’t stop the state from enacting the ...

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

WATCH: WGN Political Analyst Paul Lisnek joined Sunday’s WGN Weekend Morning News to discuss the $55.2 billion state budget ...