Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants to spend at least $250 million to target the state’s housing affordability crisis, and the money ...

Chicago homeowners have suffered in recent years. While property taxes did increase in some Cook County suburbs in 2024, city homeowners felt the bulk of the pain. That’s because assessed values on ...

Pritzker wants $589 million in business-focused tax hikes. That would endanger Illinois’ long-term economic stability.

Illinois’ public universities have lost 13,062 students during the past 20 years, but three gained. They lost state funding while the losers got more money.

Illinoisans would pay a new bag tax under a proposed bill in Springfield. The tax would only deepen concerns that the state ...

J.B. Pritzker made Illinois’ acute housing shortage a focus in his recent State of the State address, proposing to make ...

Supporters are branding the effort as a “millionaires tax.” Illinois voters have heard that promise before. In 2020 they ...

Nearly 55% of Illinois voters support the state opting into the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program. But it’s up to Gov. J.B. Pritzker to opt Illinois into the program. Only about one in five ...

Illinois homebuyers face a tough reality: Rising prices are pushing once-affordable communities out of reach for many ...

The state’s data center boom is reshaping energy, water use and taxes. Here’s what residents should know about the costs, ...

A measure in Springfield would expand permission to build accessory dwelling units to every municipality in the state.

A new bill in Springfield calls for a study of Illinois’ higher education system and a 10-year plan to make it more ...