Lawmakers demand honest pricing from businesses but fail to acknowledge poor budgeting practices on their end.

The law promised major infrastructure improvements, but the state’s roads aren’t in any better shape than when it took effect seven years ago.

None of the three proposed amendments to the Illinois Constitution that would have repealed or endangered the state’s flat income tax protection advanced during this year’s legislative session.

The spending plan passed in a familiar scramble in the final hours of the 104th Illinois General Assembly.

Illinois lawmakers’ late-night budget sets a new spending record financed by more tax hikes on the final day of legislative session.

Lawmakers plan to stop the automatic gas tax increase for six months but plan to use an unexpected $150 million in sales tax from high gas prices to balance the budget rather than benefit taxpayers.

Year after year the state budget has diverted money meant for transportation to pay the bills. It’s a good bet the fiscal 2027 budget will do it again.

Bucking the practice of recent years, lawmakers introduced the proposed budget more than three weeks before the May 31 end of the session.