CITY HALL HOO-HA: In an extraordinary rebuke to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, even his allies joined in voting down his budget proposal — which included a $300 million property tax increase. The ...

Check out the interactive database embedded in the article to see how metro-east school districts are funded compared to the ...

In Tuesday's election, Democrat Marti Deuter and Republican Dennis Reboletti are running. District 45 includes parts of ...

Democrat Marti Deuter held a comfortable lead over Republican Dennis Reboletti in Tuesday's race for state representative. ...

As one of the closest presidential races in history enters its last weekend, veteran Illinois election experts aren’t being any more definitive than their national counterparts about how things will ...

Bruce Rauner. As a candidate and then as governor, Rauner had spent the previous five years spending millions of his own dollars painting Madigan as not just the root of Illinois’ fiscal ...

Bruce Rauner, former CPS CEO Arne Duncan and other privatization and austerity advocates for exacerbating the underfunding of Chicago public schools and setting low expectations around what ...

Started under Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2017, the program allowed Illinois taxpayers to donate to a scholarship-granting organization of their choice, like Empower Illinois and the Big ...

Michael Jacobson, president of the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association, traced the funding crisis to the marathon budget ...

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