The head of one of Chicago’s top nonpartisan government research organizations said lawmakers made too many short-term ...

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon tried to pass legislation that would have wiped clean a potential multimillion-dollar ...

It's odd that red states aren’t taking the blue states up on an arrangement that to some degree erects a fence around ...

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 ...

As a business leader, would you approve in under 24 hours a 3,400-page annual plan you had just read for the first time? What ...