The Illinois budget agreement hammered out on June 30 will allow state government to avoid outright collapse through the calendar year 2016, but it ha...

It’s only June and voice mail boxes across Illinois already are filling with robocalls from political candidates. The 2016 Illinois elections are shap...

If you're frustrated with the folks in Springfield, this election season might not be the stress relief you're looking for.

Dueling press conferences between the Republican governor and Democratic Senate president, another costly downgrade to the state's already worst-in-th...

The 2016 spring legislative session ended just as the did the 2015 session: with no state budget. Now the governor and his Democratic counterparts in ...

With less than a week before a budget is due, the Illinois General Assembly displayed a rancorous public face while calmer heads prevailed behind the ...

There was a lot of action, though not nearly as much progress, in and around the Capitol in Springfield this week. The Senate passed a bill that would...

With a state budget due in less than three weeks, school funding could be the issue that breaks or prolongs the Illinois budget impasse.

With less than eight weeks to go in FY 2016 -- a year in which Illinois never had an operating budget -- Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Illinois General As...

This week's "Only in Illinois" contains highlights from the Chicago Southland Chamber of Commerce town hall on the Illinois budget crisis and its effe...