Governor’s office revises state revenue estimates
— May 12, 2023SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker said this week that the state remains “on a great trajectory from a fiscal perspective,” even as his office decreased its current-year revenue…
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker said this week that the state remains “on a great trajectory from a fiscal perspective,” even as his office decreased its current-year revenue…
SPRINGFIELD – The state’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability has decreased its current-year budget forecast by $728 million, erasing much of a once-predicted…
SPRINGFIELD – Sustained higher-than-predicted state tax revenues have in recent months given lawmakers a level of budgeting flexibility that is, at least in modern times, without…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza is pushing legislation that would require the state to make automatic deposits into its so-called “rainy day fund” whenever certain…
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 – With two months to go before the adjournment of Illinois’ spring legislative session, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s state budgeting task may have gotten easier Tuesday. The…
SPRINGFIELD – State tax revenues grew by $5.5 billion in the fiscal year that concluded on June 30, exceeding $50 billion for the first time in Illinois’ history, according to…
SPRINGFIELD – A House revenue committee on Thursday, Feb. 24 heard projections of an Illinois economy that is steadily moving back toward a level of pre-pandemic normalcy, which means…