The Illinois budget, passed late Saturday, boosts K-12 education funding, provides special grants for safety-net hospitals, ...

Illinois lawmakers approve another sports betting tax hike, raising question of how top sportsbooks will react.

Reporter: This budget relied on a few one-time fixes. You’ve tried in the past to fix the structural deficit in 2020. Is that ...

Illinois’ spring session ends with a budget deal but no solution on transit, taxes or energy — leaving key challenges ...

After Illinois lawmakers passed a budget with cuts and tax hikes, Gov. JB Pritzker blamed the state’s fiscal challenges on President Trump.

Three state lawmakers stood with Hoover's family as they seek a state commutation that would release the long-imprisoned ...

As the two governors made buzzy appearances in South Carolina, Democrats in the influential state were already looking to the ...

The 2028 presidential primary is years away, but the Democratic Party’s leadership and messaging struggles are defining it ...

Former New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner recalls speaking with Gov. Meldrim Thomson Jr. on the subject of our ...

The Town of Conway has (finally) done the smart thing. It will not appeal a court ruling that allows the doughnut mural to ...

It appears that the state intends to balance its upcoming budget in part by selling to private interests the huge tract of ...

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