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6 days ago | thederrick.com | Dan Petrella |Jeremy Gorner |Olivia Olander |Addison Wright

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — With only hours remaining before their midnight deadline, Democratic state lawmakers on Saturday still were finalizing various components of a more than $55 billion budget balanced with a combination of cuts and tax increases. The spending portion of the plan was unveiled late Friday, but a package of tax increases and other revenue measures had yet to surface by early Saturday afternoon.

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | Dan Petrella |Jeremy Gorner |Olivia Olander |Addison Wright

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — With only hours remaining before their midnight deadline, Democratic state lawmakers on Saturday still were finalizing various components of a more than $55 billion budget balanced with a combination of cuts and tax increases. The spending portion of the plan was unveiled late Friday, but a package of tax increases and other revenue measures had yet to surface by early Saturday afternoon. kAmw665:?8 v@G] yq !C:EK<6C’D H2C?:?8 E92E 96 H@F=5 G6E@ 2 A=2? E92E C6=:65 @?

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Dan Petrella |Jeremy Gorner |Olivia Olander |Addison Wright

SPRINGFIELD — With a little more than 24 hours remaining before their Saturday deadline, Democratic state lawmakers unveiled a $55 billion spending plan balanced with a combination of spending cuts and tax increases. Heeding Gov.

1 week ago | masstransitmag.com | Jeremy Gorner |Talia Soglin |Olivia Olander

Illinois lawmakers filed a long-awaited bill Wednesday that would reform the Chicago area’s public transportation system with changes to its overall governing structure and a new police force to patrol its bus and train lines. But the bill, filed just days before the scheduled adjournment of the spring legislative session, does not include a proposal for how those reforms will be funded as Chicago-area transit agencies face an impending $771 million fiscal cliff at the end of this year.

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Talia Soglin |Olivia Olander |Jeremy Gorner

SPRINGFIELD — After months of negotiations amid warnings of potentially drastic service cuts, Illinois lawmakers on Thursday 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.