Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the state's budget plan for the 2024 fiscal year, touting the $50.4 billion measure as balanced and transformative. CBS Chicago Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed ...

Editor’s note: This is Part One of a five-part series. When Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered his first budget address in 2019, he laid out a muscular plan to fix an Illinois pension system that was ...

Pritzker’s February budget proposal included $220 million for the program, but by early May projections had swelled to $1.1 billion as enrollment continued to outstrip expectations.