NORMAL — Unpredictable payments from the state are putting financial stress on McLean County Unit 5 and could plunge the district into considerable deficit, the school board heard Wednesday.
SPRINGFIELD — The new Illinois General Assembly will have to address different proposals in the House and Senate on raising Illinois’ minimum wage.
BLOOMINGTON — Illinois first lady Diana Rauner visited with staff and a client at Chestnut Health Systems' crisis stabilization unit Tuesday during her tour of the facility for people struggli…
BLOOMINGTON — Two Bloomington lawmakers were named Tuesday to leadership positions in the Illinois General Assembly.
SPRINGFIELD — The first bill to be introduced in the Illinois Senate during the new session of the General Assembly that began Wednesday is reserved for a long-awaited overhaul of the way the …
CHICAGO — Illinois elementary schools and day care centers must test drinking water sources for lead and notify parents of the results under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
SPRINGFIELD — The final report from a state commission on criminal justice reform recommends measures that could give judges more discretion in sentencing decisions and expand services for inm…
NORMAL — This summer, Normal officials worried Portillo's might not come to town after all.
BLOOMINGTON — If Illinois not-for-profit hospitals would be required to pay property taxes, their services would be diminished, say representatives of some Central Illinois hospitals.
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Treasurer Mike Frerichs announced a bill Thursday that would require insurance companies to review their records as far back as 1996 to ensure that they’ve paid death be…
SPRINGFIELD — A banner hanging above the stage at Sangamon Auditorium at the University of Illinois Springfield for Wednesday's Illinois House inauguration ceremony offered the members some advice.
SPRINGFIELD — The 99th Illinois General Assembly adjourned Tuesday without passing a comprehensive state budget during its entire two-year term.
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Senate won’t vote on a proposed bipartisan compromise to end the state’s 18-month budget standoff until after the new General Assembly takes office on Wednesday.
BLOOMINGTON — Two Pantagraph-area long-term care facilities have been fined by the Illinois Department of Public Health for alleged violations of the state Nursing Home Care Act during the fou…
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Senate won’t vote on a proposed bipartisan compromise to end the state’s 18-month budget standoff until after the new General Assembly takes office on Wednesday.
SPRINGFIELD (AP) — A plan to end a two-year Illinois budget standoff negotiated in the Senate — which likely includes an income tax increase as well as items on Gov. Bruce Rauner's agenda — co…
SPRINGFIELD — Time is running out for the 99th Illinois General Assembly to do what it has failed to do so far throughout its two-year term: pass a comprehensive state budget that will earn th…
BLOOMINGTON — Evelyn Sanguinetti, Illinois' first Latina lieutenant governor, spoke at a Hispanic festival Friday about her own life as the daughter of immigrants and how education is the key …
SPRINGFIELD — The General Assembly could vote during its lame-duck session next week on a bill that would expand access to abortions for women on Medicaid and some other state insurance plans.
BLOOMINGTON — The new year is resulting in flashbacks for some McLean County-based human services agencies.
CLINTON — The agency that had been DeWitt County's largest provider of outpatient mental health services is "still going" even though most of its programs have been spun off to other providers.
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois is nearly six months behind in meeting its obligation to provide millions of dollars in dedicated funding to school districts across the state for transportation, specia…
SPRINGFIELD — When it comes to Illinois government, 2016 is ending much as it began, with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Democratic-controlled General Assembly at odds over the budget an…
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ top leaders aren’t meeting to discuss the state budget, but a group that includes rank-and-file lawmakers from both parties has been meeting more frequently in recent w…
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Department of Corrections is making headway toward a goal of reducing the prison population 25 percent by 2025, but continued partisan gridlock over the state budget…
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois secretary of state’s office plans to continue mailing out license plate renewal notices in the new year, with or without a new budget deal between Republican Gov. Br…
SPRINGFIELD — As Illinois enters a new period of heightened budget uncertainty, colleges and universities must again decide whether to front grant money for low-income students who are suppose…
SPRINGFIELD — State Sen. Andy Manar of Bunker Hill is among a growing list of Democrats being mentioned as possible candidates to take on first-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2018.
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Bruce Rauner did little during a live Facebook video chat Tuesday afternoon to advance the conversation on Illinois’ budget standoff even as the Dec. 31 expiration date on t…
SPRINGFIELD — After attendance at the Illinois State Fair dropped more than 13 percent this year, the Illinois Department of Agriculture is asking fairgoers what they liked and what they’d lik…
