Nearly five years after commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump ...

About 60 area residents, many holding homemade signs, turned out Sunday afternoon for a rally organized by local lawmakers to ...

The kitchen table conversation was held at a home in the 4300 block of Church Street in Skokie, where five adult men with ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has “revised” his remarks about not raising taxes to balance the budget. “It’s very important that we live ...

Illinois spent about $815 million on the Medicaid expansion program during the last fiscal year, HFS says. The feds paid out $7.34 billion because, as noted above, they pick up 90% of the total tab, ...

Illinois law requires the state to withdraw from the expansion program if federal reimbursement falls below 90%. Some 770,000 ...

With the future of many social programs under scrutiny by the new administration and Republican-led Congress, a rally in ...

LaTeena Smith pleaded guilty in December to submitting fraudulent bills for psychotherapy services for Medicaid managed care ...

An Illinois lawmaker is pushing a new bill that would ensure parents have the final say before their kids are prescribed psychotropic medications.

Recent proposals from Republican congressional leaders and conservative think tanks would cut Medicaid by taking coverage away from people who don’t meet unnecessary and burdensome work requirements. ...

Although Medicaid funding appears safe, at least for the moment, Democratic lawmakers are still warning of potential cuts to ...

With Gov. JB Pritzker still weighing whether to seek a third term, the firmer foundation he’s laid for Illinois’ historically shaky finances faces a major stress test from ballooning deficit ...