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The federal government has agreed to match billions of dollars in Medicaid funding for Illinois hospitals around the state.Gov. Bruce Rauner said Thursday…

Gov. Bruce Rauner says the state will spend about $3 million to help build a new water source in a western Illinois community where Legionnaires' disease…

A proposal has failed that would have reallocated state funding from Southern Illinois University's Carbondale campus to the Edwardsville campus to…

Southern Illinois University trustees at their next meeting are to consider a plan to gradually shift state funding from the Carbondale campus to the…

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a Medicaid funding plan that changes the way hospitals are reimbursed for treating low-income patients.The…

The Illinois Senate has OK'd a revised Medicaid funding plan for hospitals. The 53-3 vote Wednesday came just hours after House approval. The legislation…

The state's education agency wants to hire a "storyteller" to relay "amazing" stories from Illinois' public schools while lawmakers are still trying…

Much of the federal government could shut down this Saturday, unless Congress votes to pass a new government funding bill.Senator Tammy Duckworth says…

The University of Illinois has a new budget for 2018, and the spending plan holds the line on student tuition.The Board of Trustees approved the $6.35…

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has presented an $8.6 billion budget to the city's aldermen that would spend about $289 million more than last year's funding…