Mandating more reasonable spending growth is the first step in a journey back to solvency for Illinois. The cap provides certainty today for a more responsible state government tomorrow.

The bill would cut off Illinois’ new tax credit scholarship program if the Illinois State Board of Education determined public school funding levels were inadequate.

State spending grew 25 percent faster than Illinoisans' personal income from 2005-2015.

Illinois is broke. But leaders don’t act like it.

The Taxpayer Fiscal Charter Act would demand funding transparency before spending bills make their way out of Springfield.

As its population and tax base erode, the city of Decatur passed a budget for fiscal year 2018 more than $3 million in the red.

A new study shows the Windy City’s financial troubles persist, despite a series of tax increases.

The village and school district will likely raise their property tax levies.

Despite objections from faculty, one university chancellor is pressing for a campus restructuring that includes curbing the tuition-heightening costs of administrative bloat.