By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois' local governments, parks, prisons and police officers are going to have to fight over the leftovers of Gov. Pat Quinn's budget proposal.
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Critics: New IL ag chief got post by voting for tax hikes
February 15, 2012
By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is once again fighting off charges from critics that he is rewarding a supporter of last year’s income tax increase with a cushy state government job.
Speed cameras may spring up outside Chicago, some fear
February 06, 2012
By Anthony Brino | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — Cameras in Illinois will soon do what has always been a police officer’s job — issue speeding tickets.
ISN fact checks Quinn’s State of the State
February 01, 2012
By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Statehouse News spoke with lawmakers, a university president and people outside of the state Capitol to go between the lines of Gov. Pat Quinn’s State of the State
address.
Deficits, pension weigh on IL spending; Medicaid eyed for cuts
January 04, 2012
By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — The arithmetic behind Gov. Pat Quinn‘s first budget proposal of the new year is grim.
Illinois will be facing an $800 million deficit within three years, despite tax revenue projected to grow by more than $1 billion a year.
Closing Illinois institutions: Cost savings or cost shifting?
December 02, 2011
By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — Closing mental health and developmental institutions in Illinois will save at least $50 million a year — eventually.
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