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

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

Democratic members of the General Assembly had only seven minutes to spare before a key constitutional deadline to pass a ...

State lawmakers are still ironing out the details of a $1 billion tax package with just a few hours left in the legislative ...

The Illinois House of Representatives have voted to approve the state budget for Fiscal Year 2026 (SB 2510 HA 3) with a vote ...

As a business leader, would you approve in under 24 hours a 3,400-page annual plan you had just read for the first time? What ...

WATCH: WGN Political Analyst Paul Lisnek joined Sunday’s WGN Weekend Morning News to discuss the $55.2 billion state budget ...

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 ...

Illinois lawmakers went down to the wire as they were back on the floor Saturday for discussion to pass a budget just hours ...

Six more working days. Next Saturday’s the deadline for Illinois state lawmakers to pass a new budget. They’ve got more ...

State lawmakers are rolling up their sleeves and preparing to put on another pot of coffee as they race to finish the budget ...

Legislators have a handful of days left before the end of the Illinois General Assembly’s spring session, and the May 31 ...