Illinois lawmakers passed a $55 billion budget with tax hikes on smoking and gambling, but left proposals on transit and a ...

State lawmakers sent Gov. JB Pritzker a $55.2 billion budget on May 31 that raises $1 billion in new revenue and increases ...

The largest increases are on taxes of tobacco, vaping and sports betting, but there are also various changes to corporate ...

That’s a drop in the bucket, however, compared to other states. California, for example, has a $12 billion gap (3.72 percent ...

Democrats in control of the Illinois General Assembly flexed their supermajorities to muscle through a $55.2 billion state ...

With electric prices going up, advocates tried — and failed — to reform the energy sector - “Heading into the end of the legislative ...

The Illinois General Assembly sent Chicago transit agencies closer to the fiscal cliff, adjourning without sending a funding ...

Paddy Power owner Flutter is weighing how it will react to a betting tax imposed by state legislators in Illinois in the US.

State Rep. Bill Hauter (R-Morton) said he is concerned with $1 billion in new spending, plus new taxes on nicotine products, ...

Illinois lawmakers have approved a $55.2 billion state budget that includes a new tax on online sports wagering, part of a ...

At Illinois Public Media’s WILL, which serves central Illinois, public broadcasting cuts would mean a sharp reduction in ...

The school's flagship campus, which has the second largest number of international students of all public universities in the ...