By BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois news@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary Democrats largely joined together to support the fiscal year 2027 budget as Republicans warned the plan will harm the state's financial picture. The budget totals about $56.9 billion and is just slightly less than what Gov. JB Pritzker...

By JENNA SCHWEIKERT Capitol News Illinois jschweikert@capitolnewsillinois.com Over the past five months, a sea of rideshare drivers in yellow T-shirts flooded the Illinois state Capitol almost weekly, lobbying for the right to form a union. They may be able to do so soon, after Illinois lawmakers passed a bill givin...

By WMBD TV MACKINAW, Ill. (WMBD) - The Tazewell County Coroner has released the name of the man killed in a Saturday wreck on Illinois Route 9. Coroner Charles Hanley said Jefferey Foster, 62, of Armington, died from multiple blunt force injuries after the motorcycle he was driving was in a wreck with a truck. Hanley s...

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary Illinois lawmakers approved a budget after 4 a.m. Monday that includes the full $350 million increase in Evidence-Based Funding for public schools. The budget calls for just over $10.8 billion in state funding for the Illinois Stat...

By BRENDEN MOORE & BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois news@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - Despite a Hail Mary heave from the Illinois Senate in the final hours of the spring legislative session, state lawmakers ultimately failed to reach the end zone on a bill incentivizing the Chicago Bears to build a n...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - Pride Month kicks off in June, and organizations in Peoria and Bloomington-Normal are planning several events throughout the summer. Peoria Proud Vice President Todd Northcutt said the group has events planned throughout the month of June, beginning with its family picnic on Saturday, June 7. &quo...

PAXTON, Ill. (WCIA) - A McLean County man was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday for secretly videotaping women and children in the bathroom of his former workplace in Ford County in 2025. WCIA's partners at The Ford County Chronicle reported that 31-year-old Jared D. Clark of Colfax was facing 12 counts of una...

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary The House gave final passage Wednesday to bills giving the Illinois Department of Insurance authority to review and approve rates for homeowners and automobile insurance. Both bills prohibit companies from charging "excessive, ...