IL Lawmakers Working To Hammer Out Details On School Funding
"None of us are getting everything we want," Senate Minority Leader Bill Brady said. "This is a true compromise."
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"None of us are getting everything we want," Senate Minority Leader Bill Brady said. "This is a true compromise."
Democratic leaders Senate President John Cullerton and House Speaker Michael Madigan say in a statement that they've reached "agreement in concept."
The illustration was created by the conservative think tank that has largely taken control of Republican Rauner's entire communications operations. CBS 2 Political Reporter Derrick Blakley has more.
Mayor Emanuel says Chicago students are demonstrating why Illinois lawmakers should override Gov. Rauner's veto of the school funding bill.
Ed Burke says they're dangerous, untested job-killers.
Gov. Rauner at first would not call the attack in Virginia an act of domestic terrorism.
Rauner's veto would remove $463 million in state funding for Chicago Public Schools, while giving other districts millions more.
There has been pushback from retailers since a court cleared Cook County government's controversial soda tax last week.
Illinois House Democrats brought together school superintendents to blast Gov. Rauner's recent school funding veto.
The Springfield budget battle took a toll not only on taxpayers, but also on lawmakers.
A budget watchdog probed public records to find that the city shelled out more than $282 million in overtime last year.
The governor said he'd accept a compromise that restores some of the $250 million in state funding he vetoed for Chicago Public Schools.
Gov. Bruce Rauner this week rewrote part of a school-funding bill. The consequences could be devastating, critics tell CBS 2 Political Reporter Derrick Blakley.
The mayor said the governor's veto will hurt minority and poor students in less-affluent school districts more than it will hurt CPS.
Negotiations to avoid Gov. Bruce Rauner's threatened veto of a school funding measure collapsed Monday.
A judge has lifted an injunction on Cook County's sweetened beverage tax, allowing the county to begin collecting it as soon as it wishes.
Bruce Rauner summoned all Republican lawmakers from the House and Senate for an hour-long meeting -- the first of its kind in anyone's memory.
With little more than a month until many school districts open their doors, Springfield still hasn't finalized a school funding plan.
They demand federal oversight for Chicago police.
It's part of a police-brutality complaint the city of Chicago may soon settle for $185,000. CBS 2 Political Reporter Derrick Blakley has more.
A $30 million public-private partnership will bring a food incubation center to East Garfield Park.
Four days after lawmakers overrode his veto of a $36 billion budget and an income tax hike, Gov. Bruce Rauner named a new chief of staff.
Test vote on House Democrats' spending plan passes 90-25, but lawmakers will blow through midnight deadline for budget deal.
Radogno was an author of the so-called "grand bargain" in the Senate, which got the ball rolling on months of budget talks this year.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Wednesday said he will extend the compulsory special sessions and keep Illinois legislators in Springfield past Friday, when a new budget needs to be in place for the next fiscal year.
