Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said Wednesday he will not sign a budget that includes broad tax hikes to fund new spending as lawmakers are in the final hours of budget negotiations.

Pritzker said he would specifically veto any budget that includes tax increases on individuals, corporations or the sales tax ...

Illinois lawmakers are in the final days of negotiations over the fiscal 2026 budget. But growing uncertainty about revenue ...

Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that even though state law bans schools from fining students directly, districts skirt ...

Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief of staff in the Obama administration, ambassador to Japan under the Biden ...

The governor issued an executive order after the NIH announced plans to use the proposed database to discover a ...

Two years ago, the Supreme Court made it easier to destroy swamps and marshes. Agricultural lobbyists want to keep it that ...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker orders all flags under the Illinois Flag Display Act to be lowered in honor of Memorial Day.

JB Pritzker made headlines when he called for “mass protests” against the Trump administration. There’s no question, the second-term governor of Illinois is positioning himself for a presidential ...

The State of Illinois acquired a key piece of land for a project aimed at keeping an invasive carp species from reaching the ...

Lawmakers approved a bill that would prohibit community colleges from using AI "as the sole source of instruction for ...

Forbes doesn't specify in the 2025 report which people are from Illinois, but they identify Lukas Walton as the richest person in the Land of Lincoln in a state-by-state comparison. Walton, 38, has a ...