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

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

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

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 ...

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

Illinois taxpayers are on the hook for over a billion dollars of tax and collection increases to fund a $55 billion budget, ...

The Illinois General Assembly passed a $55.2 billion dollar budget for 2026. It includes a boost for public schools, but not ...

The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left ...

Republicans have set an ambitious deadline of trying to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda through Congress by the ...

The Illinois General Assembly sent Chicago transit agencies closer to the fiscal cliff, adjourning without sending a funding ...

Paddy Power owner Flutter is weighing how it will react to a betting tax imposed by state legislators in Illinois in the US.

Illinois legislators have approved a new state budget that raises taxes on legal sports wagers, causing betting stocks to ...