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December 18, 2025

Illinois law generates $1.5B to save public transit from fiscal calamity

  • The money comes from a sales tax increase and diversions of hundreds of millions of dollars from the road-construction fund.
    • By JOHN O'CONNOR
    Associated Press

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois' public transit systems got a $1.5 billion annual infusion on Friday as Gov. JB Pritzker signed a law overhauling Chicago's web of buses and trains, sparing it from devastating service cuts and pledging upgraded performance and accountability.

    Dozens of government, labor and transit leaders congregated for the ceremony at Chicago's century-old Union Station, legendary architect Daniel Burnham's vision for a centralized transportation hub through which 35 million commuters still move annually.


     
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