After Illinois lawmakers passed a budget with cuts and tax hikes, Gov. JB Pritzker blamed the state’s fiscal challenges on President Trump.

The Illinois budget, passed late Saturday, boosts K-12 education funding, provides special grants for safety-net hospitals, ...

At their convention in Ogden, Democrats elect Brian King as chair — and debate whether winning means shifting left or center.

Democrats in control of the Illinois General Assembly flexed their supermajorities to muscle through a $55.2 billion state ...

Four bills creating the new budget included thousands of pages of detail also submitted in the final 48 hours of the ...

The $55.2 billion spending plan is supported by $55.3 billion of revenue, including just over $1 billion in new taxes and ...

As I write this column, the spring legislative session is a day away from adjournment. Nothing of great importance has ...

The largest increases are on taxes of tobacco, vaping and sports betting, but there are also various changes to corporate ...

There is no official definition of “sanctuary,” but it is the term applied to states, cities and other jurisdictions that ...

Some state Republicans, who are in the minority in both chambers of the statehouse, lobbed criticism at the quick nature of ...

The spending plan raises over $1 billion in revenue. News 8 spoke with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to hear their ...

Democrats hold a supermajority in Illinois, but Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker is blaming President Donald Trump for the state’s ...