Illinois Democrats passed a $55 billion spending plan, which includes $1 billion in tax hikes and increased spending by 38% in the last six years, while Republicans criticize the budget as ...

Central Illinois lawmakers had predictably partisan reactions to the official state budget for the next fiscal year.The budget includes $55.2 billion in spending, a 3.9% increase. Revenue estimates ...

Democrats in control of the Illinois General Assembly flexed their supermajorities to muscle through a $55.2 billion state budget at the 11th hour. The spending plan relies more than $1 billion in tax ...

Gov. JB Pritzker celebrated the passage of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget just hours after the spending plan passed out of both ...

A controversial program that provides health insurance to more than 30,000 noncitizens between ages 42 and 64 will be cut.

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

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State lawmakers passed the budget for the next fiscal year, meeting their midnight deadline. Leaders worked late into the evening with just minutes to spare last night to pass the ...

Illinois legislators late Saturday approved a $55 billion spending plan for the fiscal year starting July 1, unsure how many ...

In a sit-down interview with the Washington Examiner, LaHood said he’s happy with his current job representing Illinois’s ...

Illinois legislators passed a record-high $55.1 billion state budget, which includes funding for local K-12 schools, Rockford ...

State leaders and lawmakers, either supporters or opponents of the Illinois state budget for Fiscal Year 2026, issued ...