According to data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Illinois Department of Employment Security, Illinois lost 9,900 nonfarm jobs in the year ending August 2025. The ...

TCR spoke to fiscal, education and policy experts to understand options that go from creating new revenue sources from scratch to reforming existing ones Property taxes are a recurring topic in ...

New taxes on Uber, automatic property tax hikes and higher liquor taxes are all being pushed as Chicago leaders seek to spend ...

Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) told state agencies to find 4% in cuts due to less funding coming to Illinois from the federal government. Pritzker signed an executive order on Tuesday requiring agencies to ...

Illinois agencies must identify spending reductions and create reserves in their budgets to prepare for an economic downturn, according to an executive order issued Tuesday by Gov. JB Pritzker.

The Sports Betting Alliance is sounding the alarm over a proposed per-bet tax in Chicago. That per-bet tax would be in addition to the one imposed by Illinois lawmakers in July. The state per-bet tax ...

Savanna, on Tuesday, said the true reason Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) issued an executive order directing offices to slash the ...

The Prairie State’s online and retail sportsbooks generated $862.5 million in wagers and operators paid out over $5 million ...

The Lincoln Highway and 159 TIF is Fairview Heights' seventh active TIF district. The city's oldest, the Bunkum Road District (TIF #1), was established in 2003 to support residential development in ...

A new bill would give megaprojects in Illinois the ability to negotiate long-term, predictable property tax agreements.

The City's Emergency Rental & Utility Assistance Program provides once-annual aid for rental or utility assistance to eligible residents.