Illinois Senate President Don Harmon tried to pass legislation that would have wiped clean a potential multimillion-dollar ...

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 ...

Republican Illinois Senate members are suing their Democratic peers over the last-minute rush to OK a $55 billion state ...

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

The transit agencies will each run out of pandemic relief funding at various points in 2026, creating deficits in their ...

The plan would let those with less than six months to live end their own lives with a physician’s help. Cardinal Blase Cupich ...

In the days following the end of the session, Illinois State Senator Dave Koehler of Peoria looked back at the tense spring ...

An Illinois Democratic plan to ban move in fees and other rental junk fees stalled in the Senate as it was never called for a ...

The retirement of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is giving Republicans a glimmer of hope they can establish a foothold in Illinois ...

A bill that would legally allow doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medication to terminally ill patients has stalled in the ...

The $55 billion budget plan unveiled Friday night by Democratic leadership would include new taxes on gambling as well as ...