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5 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mitchell Armentrout |George Wiebe
SPRINGFIELD — Another legislative session came and went without the Chicago Bears breaking the line of scrimmage in Springfield for legislation to help them build a new stadium. With lawmakers scrambling to pass a state budget and agonizing over the future of mass transit, the Bears’ team of lobbyists was left on the Capitol sideline in their push for a bill that would potentially pave the way to a dome in Arlington Heights.
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6 days ago |
wbez.org | Mitchell Armentrout |George Wiebe
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers approved a $55.2 billion state budget package minutes ahead of a key constitutional deadline Saturday night, relying on tax hikes that would hit smokers, gamblers and big out-of-state companies to help seal an estimated $1 billion shortfall. Democratic leaders cut it down to the final seven minutes on the clock of May, but avoided the public intra-party squabbling that marked the chaotic conclusion of last spring’s legislative session.
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6 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | George Wiebe
SPRINGFIELD — After fierce pushback and a narrow vote of support in the House of Representatives, Illinois lawmakers ended their spring session without approving a bill that would let terminally ill people end their own lives. The House of Representatives had approved the measure Thursday with just three votes to spare to get it passed. But shortly after that vote, Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, issued a rare statement, condemning the plan as “assisted suicide.”State Sen.
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6 days ago |
wbez.org | Mitchell Armentrout |George Wiebe
SPRINGFIELD — State lawmakers are on track toward overhauling the governance of mass transit across the Chicago area, but a lengthy list of proposed new taxes could derail efforts to stave off the fiscal cliff facing the CTA, Metra and Pace.
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6 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mitchell Armentrout |George Wiebe
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers closed out their spring session early Sunday without passing legislation to reform mass transit governance in the Chicago area or direct upwards of $1 billion in new funding to the CTA, Metra and Pace to fend off a $770 million fiscal cliff that looms next year. A bill championed by state Sen.
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