Illinois State Budget

Illinois’ largest-ever spending plan increases education, human services, infrastructure funding

The Illinois General Assembly has adopted a $53.1 billion state budget for the year that begins July 1, but it took the House until the break of dawn on Wednesday to get it done.

Illinois legislators are set to meet for the second day of a special session aimed at forcing a budget compromise in the state's two-year impasse.…

The Illinois Senate has approved small pieces of the far-reaching budget compromise plan it's debated for six weeks. But whether the rest of the package…