It was disappointing if not altogether surprising to read recently of Dick Durbin’s plans to retire from the U.S. Senate at ...

After months of clashes on multiple issues, the 2025 legislative session ended last week with new legislation passed on the ...

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 ...

The "chicken bill", which allows Illinois small poultry farmers to sell products beyond their farms and reduce red tape, is heading to the governor's desk.

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ latest budget misses the mark in several key areas, according to one independent nonprofit fiscal ...

State lawmakers built Illinois’ record $55.2 billion budget for 2026 on gimmicks, one-time fixes and piecemeal tax hikes.

With emergency federal aid drying up and ridership still below pre-pandemic levels, transit agencies in Chicago and ...

Springfield was right to delay rushed transit funding plans. Now lawmakers must get serious about reforming Chicago’s transit ...

A last-ditch plan to save CTA, Metra and Pace fell apart in Springfield. Here’s how political divisions, rushed taxes and ...

Approving the bad idea of sweetening Tier 2 pensions for state employees hired after Jan. 1, 2011, would only have driven the state’s horrendous public-pension debt deeper into the hole. At the same ...

“The funding doesn't run out until Dec. 31 of this year,” House Speaker Chris Welch, D-Hillside, told Capitol News Illinois ...