“Last year homelessness increased 116% in the state of Illinois,” Doug Kenshol, co-founder of the Illinois Shelter Alliance, ...

Facing a tight budget year with constrained spending and limited natural revenue growth, the $55.1 billion fiscal year 2026 ...

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood is voicing full-throated support for the massive Republican tax and spending bill, despite past ...

Chicago adult education programs are in limbo after the Trump administration abruptly froze nearly $7 billion in ...

The administration has delayed signing an agreement to resolve negotiations over a federal complaint filed with the U.S.

Thirty-four cities and counties have asked to join a California lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from cutting ...

As elderly Americans begin to lose SNAP and Medicaid under President Trump’s new tax and spending law, providers brace for ...

As COVID-19 relief funds run out, transit agencies across the U.S. are coming to the edge of a fiscal cliff and scrambling to ...

A second federal district judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate AmeriCorps workers who were ...

Quad-Cities Democratic elected officials on Tuesday held events and protests after President Donald Trump signed what he ...

These 10 U.S. states have relatively weak economies and would not be in the best position to weather a recession.