Illinois may be know as the Land of Lincoln, but the attractions it offers for kids and families go beyond the 16th president and the Windy City. There are lots of fun, quirky, active, outdoorsy, ...

Two months ago, state budgeteers were crying the blues over a projected $3 billion-plus budget deficit for the 2025-26 fiscal ...

Many Central Illinois communities face housing shortages. Local lawmakers are sponsoring a bipartisan bill hoping to add more ...

Washington's threats to state and local government funding took center stage when Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker delivered his seventh budget.

Gov. JB Pritzker gave lawmakers plenty to digest this week with the annual unveiling of his proposed budget and policy ...

SPRINGFIELD – Majority Party Democrats had mixed reactions to Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget address Wednesday, with leadership in ...

Before lawmakers consider raising taxes for transit, a trust deficit must be addressed to ensure that funding is used effectively and efficiently to achieve clear public benefits.

In his budget and State of the State Address, Gov. J.B. Pritzker invoked the rise of Nazi German in criticizing the Trump ...

Gov. JB Pritzker’s fiscal 2026 budget proposal doesn’t raise taxes and zeroes out a costly program providing healthcare to ...

We’ll look at the standard bunch of firearm-related bills in my next column, but otherwise there are bills for a little bit ...

Illinois is not the first state to think about this,” Lau citing that nearly half of the states in the country have similar ...

Logan Bricker is a master's degree student in the UIS Public Affairs Reporting program, working this semester as an intern ...