1. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office is intensifying its push for CPS to borrow money to avoid leaving the city in the red ...

Chicago officials would have an additional $87 million to spend on a host of programs designed to repair the city’s tattered ...

We keep learning more highly questionable aspects of the Johnson administration’s plan to float $830 million in new bonds.

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

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Gov. JB Pritzker has proposed growing spending by about $2 billion without new income or service ...

Speaker Mike Johnson has been making progress with moderates who've raised concerns about potential Medicaid cuts, but a band of fiscal hawks are refusing to budge.

In his budget presentation in Springfield today, the governor lays out an improved economic forecast that staves off major ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson says he hopes Illinois Governor Pritzker’s budget proposal includes substantial investments in ...

The board’s vote could change the original plan, which was to save all seven Acero schools slated for closure next year.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave his 2026 budget address on Wednesday. Here is what he asked lawmakers to approve for early childhood, ...

In a combined State of the State and budget address in Springfield Wednesday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced that ...