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The Illinois Constitution gives governors power to eliminate or reduce spending lines in the budget without rejecting the whole bill.

Local governments will receive the same percentage of income tax revenue as last year despite a proposal from the governor ...

Senate budget sponsor teases sales tax holiday on school supplies and gas tax freeze.

State struggles again to get money out the door for after-school programs.

Republicans want to change the law to make it easier to hold people before trial.

Twelve of 36 seats on the Illinois Democratic State Central Committee were contested in Tuesday’s primary election. As expected House ...

Democrats offered muted praise while Republicans dismissed the governor’s affordability message as campaign-style rhetoric.

The measure could automate record sealing for over two million eligible Illinoisians.

Illinois Democrats condemn Trump’s executive order limiting funding to Illinois because of its pretrial detention law.

Rep. Margaret Croke got a major boost Friday in her bid to become the state’s next state comptroller.