SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Energy-efficiency work on homes in the Chicago area funded by federal stimulus program money was sub-par, overpriced and poo...

In early July federal officials promised more than $67 million in stimulus funds to prevent homelessness in Illinois. They saw it as a way to help fam...

Illinois has updated its stimulus Websites -- but it's still getting low marks for transparency....

CHICAGO (AP) -- On a scale of zero to 100, it can't get worse than the big goose egg. That's the embarrassing rating Illinois received in a report re...

Illinois' long-dysfunctional government ultimately helped the state gain quick approval for a large share of federal stimulus money to fix roads and b...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Obama administration says Illinois will get $82 million in federal stimulus money to help children and prevent disease. ...

With the federal government handing Illinois public schools more than $1 billion extra this year, you might think it's a good year for schools. But y...

Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a construction program aimed at putting people back to work while lawmakers hash out a much larger public works program. Of...

CHICAGO - Federal officials say Illinois will receive about $3 billion for education in economic stimulus money. It's money President Barack Obama pr...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal authorities are setting aside nearly $10 million in stimulus money for three Illinois airports. A statement from Sen. Dick Du...

As the federal government descends deeper into deficit spending, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Mayor Richard Daley today came out in defense of one politi...

The President's $787 billion spending bill will send large chunks of money to Illinois and Indiana. President Obama says he wants transparency in how ...

Federal auditors plan to keep an especially close eye on how Illinois spends its share of federal stimulus money. The Government Accountability Offic...

Illinois has been a bit of a deadbeat. The state has piles of unpaid bills--including $2 billion just for Medicaid reimbursements. Now this massive ba...

Illinois transportation officials say they haven't missed any federal deadlines for stimulus funds. And an Illinois Department of Transportation spok...

Illinois still has not officially submitted a list of shovel-ready road and mass transit projects to the federal government for funding under the econ...

After a decade of quiet tinkering around the margins, the dream of making Chicago the center of a high-speed rail network finally is taking real shape...

llinois officials expect to get the state's first chunk of federal stimulus money today. But they're unclear on how much it will be, and what it can b...

With Illinois poised to get nearly $9 billion from the federal stimulus bill, state and city officials have been scrambling to compile wish lists of p...

CHICAGO - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said he wants to overhaul the state's tax structure to ease burdens on the poor and work on a scholarship initiative...

With Congress set to vote Friday on the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package, details have seeped out about how the money will be divided. It...

Spending cuts in the $838-billion stimulus bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday will cost Illinois at least $2.4 billion and thousands of jobs if it p...

Mayor Richard M. Daley hasn't been too specific about what's on the city's economic-stimulus wish list. But during a visit to Washington on Tuesday, h...

Mayor Daley on Monday outlined projects he would like to complete if funding is made available through President Obama's economic stimulation package....