The relative ease of budgeting following the pandemic thanks to federal aid and strong tax revenue surpluses for the state ...

Uncertainty in federal funding under President Donald Trump's administration has made a tough state budget season even more ...

The governors of seven mostly Midwestern states, including Minnesota, have formed a coalition to coordinate easing restrictions to reopen the economies they’ve shuttered in response to the ...

Heading into budget season, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker faces several converging challenges, including a projected deficit over ...

The Nation’s Report Card that measures how well students across the country are learning has just been released for 2024. The ...

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker wants to block those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol from working in Illinois government, despite the clemency granted to over 1,500 ...

In a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s mass pardon of Jan. 6 rioters, Gov. JB Pritzker has blocked anyone who participated in the 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection from getting a job with the ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has directed his state’s hiring authority to prohibit the employment of anyone who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, saying their “infamous and ...

Pritzker is a longtime critic of Trump, going back to the president’s first-term handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Illinois governor was among those considered as a running mate for former ...