Governor Pritzker on Tuesday called on all state agencies to find 4% in budget cuts to sock away as reserves in this year's budget, blaming President Trump's "disastrous economic policies" for a ...

JONESBORO, Ill -- It was a bitterly cold evening on Jan. 19, 1997, when Judy Stegle and her husband, Mike, received the call that would upend their lives forever. Their 17-year-old daughter, Cortnie ...

SPRINGFIELD (CNI) - Illinois is on track to run a more than $200 million deficit just three months into the current fiscal year, according to the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget. If nothing ...

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(WTVO) — Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, on Tuesday, said the reason Gov. JB Pritzker (D) issued an executive order directing offices to slash the general fund by 4% has ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- The Illinois House voted Thursday afternoon to approve a temporary budget plan that would fund the state until August 1. Super-majority House Democrats passed the one-month ...

In addition to already putting it in the hole for the current fiscal year, Illinois' budget forecast sheds more light on how hard federal funding cuts to health care and SNAP will hit the state in the ...

If advocates, stakeholders and members of the public were granted all their requests for public school funding next year, ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Legislative Black Caucus members expressed measured support, and points of concern, for Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposed budget Wednesday following Pritzker’s annual budget address ...