Coming into October, transit districts from Chicago to Springfield were staring down the side of a fiscal cliff. Costs are up ...

Illinois State Fair officials announced the first headliner for the 2026 lineup. Country music singer Lainey Wilson will ...

The Illinois State Fair took to Facebook to announce Lainey Wilson will take over the Illinois Lottery Grandstand Stage on ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a $1.5 billion transit funding bill without large statewide tax increases that were previously ...

Lawmakers agreed on a tax package to stave off a $200 million-plus fiscal cliff next year that would likely result in major ...

A new proposal to fund Illinois’ mass transit with new taxes has been met with some skepticism, including from the state’s ...

Illinois lawmakers have sent Gov. JB Pritzker legislation prohibiting federal authorities from making immigration arrests ...

With Pritzker opposed, the bill faces a major uphill battle over the final scheduled days of the General Assembly’s fall veto ...

The The Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) Act comes as the RTA faced a budget gap of more than $200 million. State lawmakers approved new funding for public transportation agencies without ...

A new proposal to fund Chicago’s transit agencies was introduced on Tuesday (Oct. 28) in the state’s House of Representatives. By Wednesday, it appeared to be dead. Gov. JB Pritzker said at a ...

Emanuel "Chris" Welch, a Hillside Democrat, said lawmakers gave the Regional Transportation Authority power to raise the ...

Gov JB Pritzker on Wednesday poured cold water on taxing streaming services, billionaires, adding fees to tickets for large sporting events or concerts and allowing speed ...