Eric Noggle News Today

SPRINGFIELD — With about three weeks to go before the Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn its spring legislative session, supermajority Democrats showed their strength this week as fiscal

The legislature's forecasting agency says there’s no April surprise as month’s haul meets expectations.

SPRINGFIELD — With about three weeks to go before the Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn its spring legislative session, supermajority Democrats showed their strength this week as fiscal

SPRINGFIELD — With about three weeks to go before the Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn its spring legislative session, supermajority Democrats showed their strength this week as fiscal

SPRINGFIELD — With about three weeks to go before the Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn its spring legislative session, supermajority Democrats showed their strength this week as fiscal

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — With about three weeks to go before the Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn its spring legislative session, supermajority Democrats showed their strength this week as

Illinois state revenues grew in March, with the $413 million increase from the same month a year ago marking the second-straight impressive monthly increase.

The Illinois legislature’s revenue estimate closely mirrors the governor’s spending plan.

The state’s two main fiscal forecasting agencies agree: Illinois’ finances will see a strong close in the final 3 1/2 months of the fiscal year before things tighten a bit

The general nationwide fear of recession also is subsiding, officials noted.