SPRINGFIELD — Failure to pay debts on time has cost Illinois $1 billion in late-payment penalties.
CHICAGO — A federal judge on Friday ordered the state of Illinois to increase the amount of money it pays toward Medicaid bills every month an…
SPRINGFIELD — Fed-up Illinois Senate Democrats plan to put the "grand bargain" budget compromise to the test, calling each of the dozen or so …
CHICAGO — A stopgap spending plan that lawmakers approved to address Illinois' lack of a state budget for a second straight year is quickly dr…
SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois' giant stack of unpaid bills came with a hefty price tag last year.
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois is set to collect $369 million more in tax revenue this year, state lawmakers learned Tuesday.
SPRINGFIELD — The end-of-session push to approve a budget plan has made for some strange bedfellows in the Capitol.
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SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House approved legislation Thursday to limit the salary upon which retired state workers can base their pensions in…
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers rejected a series of proposals Thursday that would have drastically reduced pension benefits for state employees.
SPRINGFIELD — The Quinn administration wants to use some of the proceeds from the sale of the state’s unused maximum-security prison in Thomso…
PEORIA (AP) - When Illinois can't pay its bills in a timely fashion, the interest penalties it's required to add on by law deliver another blo…
SPRINGFIELD - Don't look for quick action to reduce Illinois' huge backlog of unpaid bills, despite universal agreement among state leaders th…
SPRINGFIELD - If you plan on doing business with the state of Illinois, you'd better learn to beg, preferably to an influential politician.
CARBONDALE - The Illinois Department of Corrections insists its failure to pay its bills on time isn't creating any safety concerns inside sta…
DECATUR - With mounting bills yet to be paid by the state, Illinois hospitals and other health care facilities continue to face challenges as …
CHAMPAIGN - Andrew Buffenbarger was expecting a check from the state of Illinois. What he got instead was a letter saying the Champaign County…
SPRINGFIELD - The state budget amounts to bad news and more bad news for Illinois schools. They're getting less money this year and they'll st…
URBANA - Illinois' nine public universities are owed more than half a billion dollars by the state, part of an ongoing debt that contributes t…
CHICAGO — When the owner of a Southern Illinois child care center didn’t get the state funding he was promised on time and faced laying off e…
DECATUR — When Mike Foutch was released from Pinckneyville Correctional Center in August 2010, he was at risk of becoming one of roughly 1,000…
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DECATUR — The years-long struggle to renovate downtown Decatur’s Lincoln Square Theatre may be close to an unsatisfactory conclusion.
SPRINGFIELD — Ambulance operators, pharmacists, aircraft repairmen, produce providers, funeral home directors, even racehorse owners.
SPRINGFIELD — Drowning in deficits, Illinois has turned to a deliberate policy of not paying billions of dollars in bills for months at a time…
If local governments and school administrators knew for sure when the state was going to pay them, they could plan for it.
