The Illinois Department of Revenue is encouraging individuals and businesses to take advantage of the 2025 Illinois Tax Amnesty Program, a unique opportunity to settle outstanding state tax liabilitie ...

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 ...

Gov. Pritzker just issued an executive order that, among other things, requires state agencies to identify cuts totaling 4% ...

Discretionary spending by Illinois state leaders has increased more than $16 billion since J.B. Pritzker became governor ...

If Illinois state lawmakers are not going to spend the $3.3 billion sitting in the state’s road fund, drivers should get a break from the taxes going into it. Illinois gasoline taxes are No. 2 in the ...

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 ...

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

Illinois residents will face a slew of new and increased taxes on various products and services starting on July 1. State lawmakers imposed the taxes in order to raise about $1 billion in new revenue.

The Illinois Gaming Board reported $5.2 million in tax receipts from its wager surcharge for July on Thursday, the first month it had been in effect.

Lawmakers raise online sports gambling tax from 15% to as high as 40%, tying state budget to Illinoisans gambling, and losing ...

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 ...