Illinois General Assembly members raced the clock to pass legislation. Of the 416 bills sent to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk ...

Government unions already hold tremendous power over taxpayers in Illinois. Three bills heading to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk ...

For most bills filed in Springfield, taxpayers will have to guess at how much more will be demanded of them. Illinois General Assembly members only worried about costs 10 times for 3,859 of their ...

Illinois General Assembly this session, but only a small fraction passed both houses. Of those, 86% were introduced by ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker had the power to strike $237 million in pork-barrel projects that benefit only Democratic lawmakers’ ...

Illinois is No. 1 in the nation for property taxes, an uncomfortable reality for Rantoul homeowner Yohna Hornbuckle. His ...

Lawmakers quietly added a fund intended to comply with federal rules about pensions for newer state workers. If it works, ...

Seven years after they were freed from being forced to pay unions, at least 267 of Illinois’ 866 school districts still have ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison but his allies now run the Illinois House ...

Over 200 Illinois towns have opted to charge a 1% grocery tax. Chicago is likely to follow. Local leaders have until October ...

This legislative session members of the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill to make it easier to sue out-of-state ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s sentencing to 7.5 years for bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud ends his ...