A Hail Mary proposal that would allow Chicago, Arlington Heights and other Cook County municipalities to create stadium financing authorities cleared the Illinois Senate but didn't get a vote in the House.

The clock is ticking in Springfield on legislation that could determine where the Bears build a new stadium, with state lawmakers facing a Sunday night deadline to pass a deal before the end of their spring session.

As dysfunction continues to unfold in the Chicago Bears stadium saga, an inability to pass either a megaprojects or stadium authority bill during Illinois’ spring legislative session has given birth to a new question.

After passing long-sought regulations on the insurance and AI industries, lawmakers' highest profile topics to tackle will also be the toughest.

Illinois lawmakers went into overtime and worked into the early morning today to send Gov. JB Pritzker a nearly $56 billion election-year state spending plan that was balanced, in part, with an