Illinois
State Budget Sources
State Budget Sources: An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses is a resource published by the Volcker Alliance designed to help public officials, policy advocates, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens fully understand the critical fiscal decisions that governors and legislators must make. The guide includes the links below to budgets for this state as well as legislative analyses of budget bills and treasurers’ or comptrollers’ monthly state cash-flow statements; capital spending plans; reports on public-worker pension funding and returns; and reports by local and national fiscal research organizations, bond rating firms, and associations of state fiscal and finance officials.
Executive and Other Constitutional Finance Offices
Current and past budget documents, economic and performance information, and debt management.
Accounting, financial reporting, and other fiscal information, including revenue, expense, contract, and employee compensation information, as well as the Fiscal Focus blog and information on the Illinois bill backlog; provided by the comptroller’s office.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Budget and fiscal analysis with a focus on Illinois children; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
This news sites follows budget, tax, and fiscal stories, as well as other public policy issues; posts and articles come from a diverse group of contributors.
Focuses on tax issues but also follows Illinois budget developments; some materials are available only to members; part of the National Taxpayers Conference.