SPRINGFIELD — With a fiscal year 2020 operating budget in place and a historic legislative session in the rearview mirror, Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza is “cautiously…
While Illinois politicians basked in the accomplishment of passing a state budget on time, the bond-rating community gave a collective “Who cares?” Despite last week’s press releases…
A sigh of relief swept across the Prairie State when an Illinois State budget was passed July 6, after two years of impasse. But public policy experts think there is still hard work…
Gov. Bruce Rauner summoned lawmakers back to Springfield for a 10-day extended session before the June 30 end of the fiscal year. In an atmosphere of distrust and partisan fighting,…
When an independent conservative Republican PAC threw in a five-figure contribution to support one candidate in a suburban Cook County state representative primary race,…
In the end, everyone got something they were seeking with the state budget: Democrats got more money for social service providers and schools; Republicans got no new tax increases;…
Illinois’ first female caucus leader in the General Assembly, Christine Radogno (R-Lemont), was lauded by both Democrat and Republican lawmakers when she announced June 28 she was…
In Metro-East, continued work on the new Martin Luther King Bridge I-55/I-64 off ramp at East St. Louis is probably the most obvious evidence of a new, six-month, temporary budget packaged…
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