SPRINGFIELD Several Illinois elected officials have released the following statements in response to the recent passage of ...

Lawmakers and state officials from around Illinois have been reacting to the passage of the new state budget.Senate President ...

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

As climate change ravages many corners of the country, Illinois — with its nutrient-rich soil and more temperate weather — is emerging as the land of opportunity. But an agricultural landscape plagued ...

Democratic leaders on the House Executive Committee approved their $55.2 billion spending plan late Friday night.

In today’s edition … The Senate takes up House Republicans’ mega-bill … Democrats are leaping on Sen. Joni Ernst’s Medicaid ...

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

Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the ...

Researchers from Harvard and universities in California and Texas are studying the long-term effects of the Eaton and ...

Illinois lawmakers failed to pass a bill at session's end on May 31 that would give Chicago-area transit agencies the funding ...

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

Some Illinois residents could see prices of a variety of items increase in coming weeks after tax rates were raised as part ...