After months of grave warnings by Chicago-area transit leaders, unions and commuters, the Illinois General Assembly passed a ...

The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend ...

Illinois lawmakers consider a toll hike and other measures to address an expected $771 million financial shortfall for ...

Illinois state lawmakers spent hours on Thursday debating a proposal to overhaul the state's mass transit systems, though ...

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

There is plenty in the newly approved Illinois budget to wring one’s hands over, but for the suburbs specifically, perhaps ...

A funding crisis, the result of the refusal of Democrats and Republicans to tax the wealthy, threatens catastrophic service ...

Legislators were unable to hash out a solution for Chicago's transit crisis before leaving Springfield on Saturday at the end ...

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

With public transit agencies in Chicagoland facing a fiscal cliff and the potential for thousands of layoffs, the state did ...

State lawmakers missed a deadline Saturday to fill a $770 million budget gap being faced by the Regional Transportation ...

Senate Bill 1563 addresses the squatter problem in Illinois, making it easier for police to remove squatters from someone's home — bypassing the months-long eviction process. Right now, squatters can ...