Andrew Adams - Capitol News Illinois

“If you come to the table looking to spend more, I’m going to ask you where you want to cut,” Pritzker said during his budget address

One of the major issues facing Illinois is growing electricity demand from data centers, large facilities that run computers for artificial intelligence companies, stock exchanges and other high-tech enterprises

In June, IDOT published its latest multi-year plan, an outline of how it will spend $41.4 billion on improvements to highways, railroads, transit and more between fiscal years 2025 and 2030

Governor JB Pritzker also released a video satirizing President Trump where Pritzker promised to rename Lake Michigan to Lake Illinois, and also would annex Green Bay, Wisconsin "to protect itself against enemies foreign and domestic."

The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case centered on whether a state law passed in 2023 violates the due process rights of Illinoisans outside Sangamon and Cook counties.

A measure awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature will help protect transgender people and victims of domestic violence who seek to change their names, according to its proponents

Lawmakers this week passed a bill aimed at boosting the development of renewable energy generation, but its proponents said the final measure was a “skinny” version of what they had hoped to pass

Illinois utilities are set to invest more than a billion dollars into upgrading the state’s electric distribution grid, resulting in higher rates for customers around the state

IBM, the tech giant known for revolutionizing computing over the past 70 years, is setting up shop on Chicago’s South Side to develop what could be the field’s next big leap: quantum technology.

Following almost a year of legal battles and fierce public opposition from many customers, water utility Aqua Illinois is set to raise its rates in 2025, impacting water customers in 14 northern Illinois counties.

A conservative Catholic legal group is suing Illinois over a landmark state law enshrining a “fundamental right” to abortion care and requiring insurance companies to cover abortion and other reproductive health care

Regulators at the Illinois Commerce Commission are nearing decisions in several high-profile cases that could determine changes to utility bills for millions of Illinoisans

Preliminary, unofficial election results show no seats in the state House or Senate have changed party hands, although a few races remained too close to call according to the Associated Press

In total, campaigns have spent at least $633 million in this election cycle, according to state board data

State Comptroller Susana Mendoza this week announced her office would suspend certain state payments to the village of Orland Park after the suburb failed to file annual financial reports with the state for two years.