Florida is in strong fiscal shape, but the budget battle is over how much to cut, not how to address chronic shortages of ...

The Illinois General Assembly passed a budget Sunday for fiscal year 2026 that increased funding for some state programs that support child care for ...

Last weekend the state enacted a $55.2 billion General Fund budget for its upcoming 2026 fiscal year. A sizable chunk of that ...

Trump's 2026 spending plan serves as a starting point for negotiations with lawmakers and will likely change as the ...

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

Illinois’ court-based rental assistance program for tenants struggling to pay rent and their landlords will stop accepting ...

Both the RTA and Chicago Transit Authority have meetings scheduled next week where talks will presumably focus on how the ...

Several Republican state legislators say they will be irreparably harmed if a court doesn’t stop the state from enacting the ...

The Republican budget bill the U.S. House approved last month includes penalties for providing health care to some immigrants ...

In February, the judge declined to extend the injunction to credit unions, though it was extended to out-of-state banks that ...

Entering a legislative session amid questions about whether he’d run for a third term, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker outlined an ambitious agenda that ended with mixed results. In a State of the State ...

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