In all, Chicago owes $35.9 billion to its four employee pension funds representing police officers, firefighters, municipal ...

The “unavoidable” catastrophe is the direct result of a political system that treats transit as a commodity rather than a ...

Local transit agencies are facing a budget gap of nearly $800 million. The Illinois Senate has passed a bill to provide ...

Congress on Thursday passed President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which the president is expected to sign ...

Senate Republicans have moved to cut the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by roughly half, as part of ...

In the northern suburbs, fire departments, like Winthrop Harbor and Zion, say they are responding to water rescues but lack ...

U of I’s Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab was cut from federal funding. This came after 12 years of working to develop ...

San Francisco joins Chicago in a lawsuit against the Trump administration for withholding critical counterterrorism funding, ...

CHICAGO — Illinois lawmakers grappling with uncertainty over ... including a flexible fund of $100 million the governor can ...