Republican Illinois Senate members are suing their Democratic peers over the last-minute rush to OK a $55 billion state ...

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

The Chicago Teachers Union and its cronies destroyed Illinois’ only private school choice program. Now they are out to kill ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s record $55.2 billion budget relies on Illinoisans paying over $394 million in new or higher taxes on ...

Charlotte Rotkis is an Editorial Intern at the Illinois Policy Institute. She is a rising senior at the University of Arizona, where she is pursuing a degree in finance.

Illinois lawmakers got creative with state budget proposals to overhaul pensions and raise new revenue, many of which would ...

With only 10,100 of the Chicago Teachers Union’s 27,216 active members voting to retain Stacy Davis Gates as president, she ...

With the Illinois state legislative session ended, bills will start crossing the governor’s desk, some containing tax hikes, ...

State leaders rely on budget gimmicks and short-term fixes and they assume speculative proposals will become law and operate exactly as planned just to balance the books, if only on paper.

Springfield lawmakers are close to hiking road tolls, taxing rideshare services as well as real estate sales for everyone in Cook and the collar counties. Springfield politicians are trying to ...

Not only did Pritzker increase spending from $40.3 billion to $53.2 billion through six state budgets – growing more than any of the four prior state governors in terms of dollars – but he ...

A new Chicago ordinance will remove college degree requirements for most city jobs. The measure breaks down employment barriers for disadvantaged groups and opens new pathways to prosperity.