SPRINGFIELD – Illinois received its first credit rating upgrade in 23 years on Tuesday, June 29 when Moody’s Investors Services raised the state’s rating one notch, citing “material…
SPRINGFIELD – With the first year of the 102nd General Assembly mostly wrapped up, lawmakers have officially passed 664 bills through both houses for eventual consideration by the…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois budget officials said Thursday, May 13 that revenues are flowing into state coffers at a faster pace than previously estimated, meaning lawmakers will have…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza is adding her voice to those warning that the state will face dire consequences if the federal government does not approve an economic…
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J. B. Pritzker’s administration estimates state revenues will come up billions of dollars shorter than expected this fiscal year and next due to the novel coronavirus’s…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers worked into the early hours of Tuesday morning to pass a $42.3 billion state budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year that Democrats say would fully…
SPRINGFIELD – The head of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s budget office said this week that the state of Illinois is on track to spend all of the money it received through the federal CARES…
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday, May 12 he would consider withholding federal pass-through funds to counties ignoring his stay-at-home order and said it “would be…
