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 ...

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 sent Gov. JB Pritzker a $55.2 billion budget on May 31 that raises $1 billion in new revenue and increases ...

Statehouse Reporter for Capitol News Illinois, Ben Szalinski, joined Jon Hansen on Let’s Get Legal to talk about the latest ...

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

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

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

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

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