Gov. JB Pritzker traveled to Washington Tuesday to push for the release of $1.8 billion in frozen federal funds to the state of Illinois — and to further sound the alarm on a pending GOP budget cut to Medicaid that will strip coverage for more than 700,

Gov. J.B. Pritzker accused the Trump administration this week of continuing to withhold nearly $1.9 billion from Illinois governmental agencies, nonprofits and small businesses, despite the fact that