06/01/2026
Last night we passed a fiscally and socially responsible budget focused on addressing the challenges families talk about around the kitchen table every night while maintaining investments in critical programs.
Highlights from this year’s budget include:
- $2.5 million in local capital and operational investments that will support youth programming, veterans, violence prevention, infrastructure improvements, business development, libraries, and more.
- $1.5 million in new funding for the home modification program.
- food insecurity, investments aim to support the over 100,000 Illinoisans removed from SNAP and critical investments in affordable school lunches.
- $300 million in new funding for classroom education, full funding for after school programs, and restoration of property tax relief grants for schools.
- a back-to-school sales tax holiday to cut costs on clothing, office supplies, and hygiene items for families.
- freezing the state gas tax to address skyrocketing fuel prices.
- fully funding, public safety initiatives including homelessness prevention and community-based violence prevention.
- fully funding safety-net hospitals with an additional $10 million dedicated to supporting FQHC’s for the most vulnerable families.
