With less than three weeks to pass a state budget, lawmakers face increasingly tough choices amid a worsening economic ...

Days before Republicans unveiled their sweeping tax cut plan, the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee had one ...

SPRINGFIELD — A growing number of state lawmakers are moving to repeal a 2015 Illinois law penalizing companies that boycott ...

This is the beginning of the next chapter of your own personal story,” University of Illinois Chancellor Robert Jones said.

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss touted safety, urged greater density in his state of the city, hours before announcing ...

At the same time, their moderate counterparts desire greater tax relief for those states with higher state and local tax ...

State officials are on track to shut down a program at the end of June that provides publicly funded health care coverage to ...

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Champaign police are investigating an early-morning shooting incident which left one man with injuries. At 2:24 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to the 1100 block o ...

President Trump’s bill would make sweeping changes with new tax cuts, huge spending on border security, limits to student ...

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I stipulated that while wasteful government spending needs to be eliminated, it would be wrong to consider programs such as ...