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Moody’s gives Illinois second credit upgrade within one year

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Illinois on Thursday received its second credit rating upgrade from Moody’s Investors Service within one year, moving up one notch but remaining in the worst shape of the 50 states.

ANALYSIS: Late-night legislating not unusual in Illinois, but process can be messy

Thursday, April 21, 2022

It was 6 a.m. Saturday, April 9, by the time lawmakers adjourned their regular spring session which had been scheduled to conclude the day prior. For everyone involved, including the press corps, it was a grueling process capped by a full-day slog that began Friday morning and ended as the Saturday morning sun rose.

Pritzker signs final first-term budget ahead of reelection push

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Gov. JB Pritzker signed his final first-term budget into law Tuesday, a roughly $46 billion spending plan buoyed by pandemic-driven revenue windfalls and a current-year surplus that helped the...

Session Recap: Union-backed wage theft measure will head to Pritzker

Thursday, April 14, 2022

A major initiative of a regional carpenters’ union that aims to end wage theft in private construction projects will head to Gov. JB Pritzker.

Lawmakers wrap up session with early-morning passage of $46.5 billion budget

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Illinois lawmakers worked until the early hours of Saturday to pass a $46.5 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year, as well as a $1.8 billion package of mostly-temporary tax cuts that...

House Dems release $45.6 billion budget as negotiations continue

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Democrats in the Illinois House unveiled their own tax cut proposals and outlined spending tied to recent public safety measures at a news conference Wednesday, just three days before the...

Democrats stand with law enforcement groups to tout ‘new way’ of addressing crime

Monday, April 4, 2022

Flanked by members of law enforcement advocacy groups, about a dozen Democrats from both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly called a news conference Monday to tout proposals that they say...

Illinois Senate Democrats introduce mostly temporary $1.8 billion tax relief proposal

Friday, April 1, 2022

Democrats in the Illinois Senate on Friday announced a $1.8 billion package of mostly temporary tax relief proposals that they hope to include in the Fiscal Year 2023 budget as the legislative...

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Moody’s gives Illinois second credit upgrade within one year

ANALYSIS: Late-night legislating not unusual in Illinois, but process can be messy