Transit agencies in northern Illinois are facing a $771 million annual combined budget gap — and lawmakers did not pass ...

Judge Blakey handed down the 90-month sentence Friday at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. He also imposed three years of supervised release after his prison time ends.

A federal judge sentenced Michael Madigan Friday to seven-and-a-half years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of $2.5 ...

Illinois lawmakers have delayed pension reform for public employees hired since 2011, known as Tier 2 employees, despite ...

Public employees are leaving their professions and our state because they can’t rely on a pension that ensures dignity in ...

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 ...

The push for an energy reform package grew out of a growing sense of concern that the state won’t be able to meet its ...

Illinois has put its cannabis retail permitting on hold indefinitely as it searches for solutions to help struggling small ...

(WLS) -- Illinois lawmakers went down to the wire as they were back on the floor Saturday for discussion to pass a ... overall general budget, and also reform of the transit agencies, and making ...

The delivery tax replaces previous revenue streams loathed by the suburbs and labor, but faces resistance of its own.

States including California, Illinois and Washington, which have such policies, are on the list. Hartford, Connecticut, Mayor Arunan Arulampalam said the capital city’s laws and policies have enhanced ...