
Jeremy Gorner
Reporter at Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune reporter covering state government and politics from the Illinois Statehouse
Articles
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3 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Alice Yin |Jeremy Gorner
As the dust settles on Springfield lawmakers punting the issue of CTA’s looming fiscal cliff, Mayor Brandon Johnson has a message: keep the faith. The mayor in his weekly City Hall news conference Tuesday reacted to the local alarm over the Illinois General Assembly adjourning this weekend without a solution to the estimated $771 million budget gap for Chicago area transit agencies with a measured, though at times defensive, tone.
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4 days ago |
bnd.com | Talia Soglin |Jeremy Gorner
For months, Chicagoland's transit agencies have sounded an alarm: If lawmakers don't plug a looming $771 million budget gap, they warned, residents will experience drastic service cuts on the CTA, Metra and Pace next year. Over the weekend, Illinois lawmakers adjourned their spring legislative session without passing legislation that would avert the fiscal cliff.
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4 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Talia Soglin |Jeremy Gorner
For months, Chicagoland’s transit agencies have sounded an alarm: If lawmakers don’t plug a looming $771 million budget gap, they warned, residents will experience drastic service cuts on the CTA, Metra and Pace next year. Over the weekend, Illinois lawmakers adjourned their spring legislative session without passing legislation that would avert the fiscal cliff.
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5 days ago |
masstransitmag.com | Talia Soglin |Olivia Olander |Jeremy Gorner
After months of negotiations amid warnings of potentially drastic service cuts, Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill they said addresses the expected $771 million financial shortfall for Chicago-area public transit with proposals that include a 50-cent hike on Illinois toll roads and an additional tax on ride-sharing services. “The funding mechanism we put forward, with estimates, gets us above the fiscal cliff amount,” Democratic Sen.
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5 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Dan Petrella |Jeremy Gorner |Olivia Olander
SPRINGFIELD — While offering a sunny take on the passage of a roughly $55 billion state spending plan balanced in part by cutting back on some of his own priorities, Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday blamed Illinois’ latest fiscal challenges not on a state tax system he once described as “unfair” and “inadequate” but on economic headwinds created by President Donald Trump.
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