Illinois budget

In our weekly "Behind the Headlines" segment, St. Louis on the Air host Don Marsh discussed some of the top news stories.Topics included the Illinois…

A social service agency making cuts in the Metro East due to lack of state funding says even if Illinois legislators pass a stop-gap budget this week it…

Updated 12:00 p.m., April 7 with news of more layoffs — Metro East social service agency Lessie Bates Neighborhood House says it can't afford to continue…

Cash-strapped East St. Louis has received an overdue gift from the state just in time for the holidays: $2.5 million worth of back taxes from the Illinois…

It has officially been 100 days without a budget in Illinois, said Amanda Vinicky, statehouse bureau chief at Illinois Public Radio. But the impasse…

Illinois has yet to pass a state budget, and an East St. Louis health-care facility is facing layoffs and other tough decisions as a result.The East Side…

July 1 marked the official start of a new fiscal year, and the state of Illinois is without a working budget for most state services.For now things seem…

Social service agencies that provide support to thousands of people in the Metro East will be operating without state funding starting Wednesday if…

Several Illinois Democratic lawmakers again called on Republican Governor Bruce Rauner to break an impasse and compromise on a budget plan that doesn't…

State higher education funding per full time student has dropped more than 26 percent in Missouri and increased almost 50 percent in Illinois over the…