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Illinois Lawmakers Pass Budget

Illinois lawmakers pass $55 billion state budget, but fail to approve mass transit funding before end of spring session

Just minutes before a crucial midnight deadline Saturday night, Illinois state lawmakers approved a $55.2 billion state budget plan for the next fiscal year. But while the Illinois Senate advanced a measure to overhaul and provide hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the Chicago area's mass transit system,

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Illinois lawmakers pass $55B budget with new taxes, no transit or Bears stadium funding

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State lawmakers passed the budget for the next fiscal year, meeting their midnight deadline. Leaders worked late into the evening with just minutes to spare last night to pass the $55 billion budget that now goes to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk.

Chicago Tribune · 10h

Illinois lawmakers pass budget with tax hikes on tobacco, gambling — but adjourn without transit, Bears stadium

Illinois lawmakers passed a $55 billion budget with tax hikes on smoking and gambling, but left proposals on transit and a Bears stadium hanging.

After lawmakers pass budget with cuts and tax hikes, Gov. JB Pritzker blames state’s fiscal challenges on Trump

After Illinois lawmakers passed a budget with cuts and tax hikes, Gov. JB Pritzker blamed the state’s fiscal challenges on President Trump.

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Pritzker celebrates FY26 budget despite GOP concerns about $55.2 billion spending plan

Gov. JB Pritzker celebrated the passage of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget just hours after the spending plan passed out of both ...

WICS5h

Gov. Pritzker applauds passage of FY26 state budget after late night vote

Gov. JB Pritzker is applauding the General Assembly after the passage of the state budget for Fiscal Year 2026.The House and Senate voted to approve the state ...

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Illinois Senate leaves without taking a vote on plan to let terminally ill people end their own lives

The plan would let those with less than six months to live to end their own lives with a physician’s help. Cardinal Blase ...

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Illinois bill aims to lower cost of prescriptions, rein in pharmacy benefit managers

A bill that seeks to control the rising cost of prescription drugs while also offering financial help for many small, ...

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Bill putting Narcan in Illinois libraries, proposed by Elgin teen, passes state Senate; Pritzker expected to sign

A bill proposed by an Elgin high school student that will put supplies of opioid antagonists like Narcan in Illinois ...

Illinois could fine gun owners for improperly storing firearms under bill headed to Gov. JB Pritzker

The Safe Gun Storage Act would require owners to keep firearms in a locked box wherever they know “or reasonably should know” ...

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