State leaders rely on budget gimmicks and short-term fixes and they assume speculative proposals will become law and operate ...

United Surgical Partners International must face a proposed class action in federal court alleging it collected the ...

Illinois Democrats introduced what a leading budgeteer described as a $55 billion budget Friday evening ahead of a Saturday ...

State lawmakers met Thursday to discuss how to avoid a large public transit budget shortfall and the plan that was discussed ...

An Illinois bill strengthening the rules on storing firearms is headed to the Governor’s desk. The House of Representatives ...

As electricity costs climb, legislators push a plan to speed up solar and wind projects, end a moratorium on new nuclear ...

New lawsuits and a proposed moratorium target Illinois’ tax-sale system, which remains unchanged two years after a key U.S.

Despite a long process of negotiation, several important groups still oppose the bills, including representatives of ...

Photo: Alamy Mayor Muriel Bowser is seeking to repeal Washington, D.C.’s sanctuary city law, a significant policy reversal ...

Big issues for Illinois legislative session’s final week include public transit, pension reform and Bears - “Illinois lawmakers head into ...

Poland is set to hold a presidential runoff election on Sunday between two candidates offering starkly different visions for ...

The maneuvers by both llinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the Chicago Bears suggest talks between the two sides have gone deeper than has been portrayed publicly and shed new light on some of the ...