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(The Center Square) – Illinois taxpayers are getting a bit more detail on how state legislators plan to spend their money for the coming fiscal year. Late Friday, a 3,374 page amendment to Senate Bill 251 was filed in t...

(The Center Square) – The Pritzker administration is proposing a massive tax incentive package related to the electric vehicle sector. The incentives amount to about $300 million and would include EV makers that manufac...

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Legislative Audit Commission is looking to get to the bottom of a recent shakeup at the Illinois Emergency Management Agency that stems from overbilling taxpayers to the tune of nearly a quarter milli...

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Legislative Audit Commission is looking to get to the bottom of a recent shakeup at the Illinois Emergency Management Agency that stems from overbilling

Republican lawmakers are furious that Democratic leaders filed, passed and signed a plan in 30 hours to give themselves an advantage for the November election.

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois House Democrats approved legislation Wednesday aimed at boosting turnout by party faithful in the Nov. 5 election by offering voters nonbinding advisory questions on securing in vitro fertilization, protecting election workers and targeting those earning $1 million a year or more with higher taxes to pay for property tax relief. The comprehensive measure, which now moves ...

(The Center Square) – A child welfare bill was gutted just moments before going to the Illinois House floor and replaced with an omnibus election bill.

“ ... we don’t understand the sense of urgency right now, unless the goal – the end goal – is to stifle the democratic process through the changes on slating candidates,” said the minority leader.

Democrats muscle through changes to ballot access, advisory questions

Democrats muscle through changes to ballot access, advisory questions