Illinois’s gambling industry has thrived since casinos were first legalized in 1990, and is now a source of $2 billion in tax ...

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 ...

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.

In its “Options for Chicago’s Financial Future” report issued on Aug. 31, the group floated the idea of up to a 50-cent ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Bloomington has joined hundreds of Illinois municipalities by reinstating a one-percent grocery tax that will soon be ...

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