After going over two years without a budget, Illinois finally secured a fiscal plan after state legislators overrode Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto of the plan and passed the budget through state legislation.
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Local officials and gubernatorial candidates decried Gov. Bruce Rauner's speech from earlier this week, categorizing his call for bipartisan cooperation to pass a balanced budget plan insincere and hypocritical.
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The city is planning potential cuts to temporary positions, apprenticeships and internships in several departments if Illinois decreases its funding to Evanston in December.
The state’s six-month...
Evanston officials said they predict difficulties in upcoming union contract negotiations due to the state budget crisis and lack of pension funding.
Three of the four major public unions in the city...
Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bipartisan state Senate bill into law Monday that will allocate $600 million in short-term funding to public state universities, colleges and Monetary Award Program grant recipients....
