Legislation to reform mass transit around Chicago passed the Illinois Senate 32-22 shortly late Saturday, but the measure — ...

State lawmakers built Illinois’ record $55.2 billion budget for 2026 on gimmicks, one-time fixes and piecemeal tax hikes.

There is plenty in the newly approved Illinois budget to wring one’s hands over, but for the suburbs specifically, perhaps ...

After months of grave warnings by Chicago-area transit leaders, unions and commuters, the Illinois General Assembly passed a ...

Legislators were unable to hash out a solution for Chicago's transit crisis before leaving Springfield on Saturday at the end ...

Budget talks took up most of the political bandwidth in the waning hours of the legislative session, leaving the big transit ...

Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson says lawmakers made too many short-term decisions that could make future fiscal years more challenging.

A funding crisis, the result of the refusal of Democrats and Republicans to tax the wealthy, threatens catastrophic service ...

With public transit agencies in Chicagoland facing a fiscal cliff and the potential for thousands of layoffs, the state did ...

Legislators were unable to hash out a solution for Chicago's transit crisis before leaving Springfield ... could leave transit riders in Illinois under a "doomsday scenario." ...

There’s no sign that anyone in Springfield or Chicago City Hall is willing to make the hard choices real leaders are supposed ...