Illinois’ hidden budgeting process let lawmakers hand out 2,815 grants, including $7 million to move the University of ...

Using taxpayer dollars intended to educate children, over 600 Chicago Public Schools staffers exploited lax rules to take ...

Whether your vice is drinking, tobacco, cannabis or gambling, Illinois is enjoying $3.47 billion from taxing it.

Illinois progressives want to reimagine capitalism and hand out free money with the tax dollars you worked for.

Lax rules, poor oversight let millions of taxpayer dollars be used for foreign travel – including safaris and camel rides – ...

Chicago avoided a city shutdown when Mayor Brandon Johnson accepted the alternative budget aldermen passed despite his wishes ...

The nation’s longest-serving legislative speaker, a state senator and a former Cook County commissioner were on Illinois’ too ...

Chicago aldermen for the first time pushed through their own budget, rejecting the mayor’s effort to impose a job-killing ...

The owners of Kevin McCallister’s house from the “Home Alone” movie will pay nearly $52,000 in property taxes this year.

Illinois local governments lost out on over $10.9 billion in income tax revenue since fiscal year 2012. Here’s what your city ...