The Illinois legislature adjourned last week with no budget in place --- not even a plan to fund public schools. Illinois Public Radio Education Desk reporter Dusty Rhodes takes a look at what issues kept the lawmakers squabbling over school funding until it was too late.
News-Gazette reporter Tom Kacich talks with Illinois Public Media’s Brian Moline about a meeting set for Thursday between Gov. Bruce Rauner, and area officials to talk about a new plan from Exelon, which it says must be passed into law to prevent it from closing its Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants.
Governor Bruce Rauner's appearance at an awards ceremony for student tech entrepreneurs at the University of Illinois Urbana campus was cut short by demonstrators who heckled him over the state budget impasse.
The Illinois House and Senate both voted Friday morning to approve a $600 million short-term funding fix for financially struggling colleges and universities that have been without funding during the state budget stalemate.
To the shock of Republicans, the Democratic sponsor of a bill to provide partial state funding for state colleges and universities withdrew her measure just before a scheduled vote Thursday night.
