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Two dozen doctors and health care organizations are taking the state of Illinois to court for not paying Medicaid providers fast enough. And in a new…
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A nonpartisan research group says Illinois’ desperate financial condition is getting even worse. The Civic Federation of Chicago says unless something...
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The state budget impasse has left Illinois months behind in payment to downstate mass transit agencies. That’s led to cuts in service from Kankakee to…
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Illinois lawmakers are working on legislation intended to help youth programs struggling under the state budget impasse. Youth services do things like…
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As Illinois remains mired in gridlock and nearing two years without a full budget, voters are pinning the blame on state leaders.
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Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago announced that its employees will have to take five furlough days. It will also have to kick hundreds of…
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Members of Illinois government's biggest labor union have voted to allow a strike. The margin was 81-19, though roughly 40% of AFSCME members chose not to…
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Chicago's Civic Federation has laid out a map to lead Illinois out of the fiscal abyss. The non-partisan government research organization says Illinois’…
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A group of agencies and businesses that provides services to state government has opened a second front in the legal fight to get Illinois to pay billions…
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Illinois hasn't had a true state budget for a year and five months. Even so, there's some talk of trying to work ahead on a spending plan for the future.…