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Illinois lawmakers pass budget with tax hikes on tobacco, gambling — but adjourn without transit, Bears stadium

Illinois lawmakers passed a $55 billion budget with tax hikes on smoking and gambling, but left proposals on transit and a Bears stadium hanging.

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Illinois lawmakers pass $55.2B budget with new taxes, immigrant health cuts, no transit funding

A new $55.2 billion state budget may be more significant for what is not in it than what is. Namely, an agreement on how to pay for the more than $770 million dollar shortfall the Regional Transit Authority is facing by year's end.

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Illinois lawmakers pass $55 billion state budget, but fail to approve mass transit funding before end of spring session

The $55 billion budget plan unveiled Friday night by Democratic leadership would include new taxes on gambling as well as tobacco and vape products.

What Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will mean for nursing homes, long-term care facilities in Illinois

Across Illinois, about 70% of days spent in nursing home care are covered by Medicaid, making it the largest insurance payer ...

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Illinois lawmakers unveil $55B spending plan with just 1 day left to pass it

Illinois Democrats introduced what a leading budgeteer described as a $55 billion budget Friday evening ahead of a Saturday ...

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Amid uncertainty in Washington, Illinois lawmakers pass slimmed-down Medicaid package

Lawmakers passed one of the narrowest packages in recent memory, due mainly to the Trump administration’s vows to make sweeping cuts in federal funding for the program while state lawmakers faced ...

Illinois legislators unveil $55.2 billion spending plan that cuts immigrant health care program

The budget proposal, revealed a day before a key deadline to pass it, includes more than $1 billion in tax increases — but ...

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Illinois budget talks enter final week amid fears of congressional cuts

Revenue projections had already been declining as the spring session has progressed. Now, lawmakers who have long feared ...

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Illinois mulls ending a health program for some immigrants living in the US illegally

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. JB Pritzker’s positioning of Illinois as a sanctuary state , a welcoming port for immigrants from ...

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Lawmakers unveil $55B spending plan with just 1 day left to pass it

Illinois Democrats introduced what a leading budgeteer described as a $55 billion budget Friday evening ahead of a Saturday ...

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