Illinois State Treasurer

Funding is open to food assistance organizations without full-time employees

Robert Prevost had money in unclaimed property from closed PayPal account

Every baby born in Illinois could get a tiny college savings account under a plan that passed the state House of Representatives Wednesday. The proposal…

A Cook County Republican is running for state treasurer. Jim Dodge ran unsuccessfully for Comptroller in 2010. “Do you want to be led down the path of…

The candidates vying to be Illinois comptroller are at odds over whether the office should even continue to exist.Estimates say cash-strapped Illinois…

Illinois' partial budget is too little and too late to make up for projected investment losses.What could Illinois do with an extra $31 million?Not too…

Illinois is preparing to hit the bond market even as the budget impasse has dimmed analysts' views of the state's credit worthiness.Just as if your credit…

A scholarship program run by the state treasurer's office is on hold. For about a decade, the treasurer's office has given out scholarships. It's a…

Democratic state Senator Mike Frerichs appears to have won the race to be the next state treasurer.If the current totals hold, this will go down in…

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is requesting a federal inquiry into what he's calling ``voting irregularities'' and ``mishandling of ballots'' during this month's…