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A new $55.2 billion state budget may be more significant for what is not in it than what is. Namely, an agreement on how to pay for the more than $770 million dollar shortfall the Regional Transit ...

The head of one of Chicago’s top nonpartisan government research organizations said lawmakers made too many short-term ...

Illinois House Majority Leader Robyn Gabel told Evanston Now on Saturday that “we’re determined” to come up with a funding ...