Lawmakers wrapped up the spring session without allocating any funding for the Chicago Transit Authority, leaving no plan in ...

The $55 billion budget plan unveiled Friday night by Democratic leadership would include new taxes on gambling as well as ...

A bill to reform mass transit around Chicago passed the Senate 32-22 shortly before midnight, but the measure — and its ...

State lawmakers missed a deadline Saturday to fill a $770 million budget gap being faced by the Regional Transportation ...

Chicago-area transit operations will face draconian cuts to service in the next fiscal year after Illinois legislators on ...

A version of the bill passed in the Senate, sponsored by Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago. But the House adjourned early Sunday ...

With public transit agencies in Chicagoland facing a fiscal cliff and the potential for thousands of layoffs, the state did ...

While the Illinois Senate advanced a measure to overhaul and provide hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the ...

Democrats in control of the Illinois General Assembly flexed their supermajorities to muscle through a $55.2 billion state budget at the 11th hour. The spending plan relies more than $1 billion in tax ...

Legislation to save public transit from a $771 million budget shortfall passed the Illinois Senate Saturday but fizzled in ...

Legislators were seemingly on board with the latest plan to reform the Chicago-area transit system — but miles apart on how ...