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Day 3: Illinois House and Senate adjourn special session after only 17 minutes

Three days of special session have cost Illinois taxpayers $150,000 for less than an hour of work.

Illinois House passes resolution encouraging tourism in the Bahamas

State representatives passed House Resolution 290, encouraging tourism between Illinois and the Bahamas.

Illinois House passes resolution creating ‘Illinois Hospital Week’

The measure would set a week aside to honor and appreciate the staff of MacNeal Hospital. The state continues without a budget.

By John Kristof

Illinois House passes resolution to issue bicentennial medallions

Lawmakers passed a resolution to issue commemorative medallions while the state continues to go without a budget.

By Marianna Schmiesing

Lawmakers vote to declare Southern Illinois ‘Eclipse Crossroads of America’

State lawmakers still haven’t passed a budget, but the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution June 22 declaring Southern Illinois the “Eclipse Crossroads of America.”

By Robert Brutvan

Day 2: Illinois House and Senate adjourn special session after only 23 minutes

Less than 43 minutes of work over two days has cost Illinois taxpayers $100,000.

By Eric Kohn

Illinois lawmakers vote to rename a portion of Roosevelt Road ‘Muhammad Ali Road’

Instead of working to pass a budget, House representatives passed a nonbinding resolution to rename a portion of Roosevelt Road on the boundary line of Chicago and Cicero.

By John Kristof

Metra inks $2.7M in contracts to lobbyist firms

Metra officials say they’ve reduced the cost of the lobbyist firms’ contracts by bringing down monthly retainer costs by 15 percent.

By Brendan Bakala

Madigan dupes another governor

Madigan has stared down Gov. Bruce Rauner for more than 700 days and Rauner just blinked.

By Austin Berg

Illinois House and Senate adjourn special session in under 10 minutes

The Illinois House of Representatives met for about seven minutes, and the Senate met for approximately 10 minutes on June 21 before adjourning from special session – costing Illinois taxpayers $50,000 for less than 20 minutes of work.

By Robert Brutvan

Republican plan perpetuates Illinois’ financial crisis

The Illinois Republicans’ budget proposal includes billions in tax hikes and has an ineffective spending “cap” that will likely result in deficit spending by 2020. The plan’s lack of reforms sets taxpayers up for a permanent tax hike in 2022.

By Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner

Special session will cost taxpayers $50,000 per day

The cost of getting lawmakers to Springfield alone will run taxpayers $21,000 per day.

Illinois’ unpaid bill backlog grows to more than $15B

The state’s backlog of unpaid bills is expected to reach $22.7 billion if Illinois goes a third fiscal year without a budget.

By Marianna Schmiesing

IDOT announces it may halt construction if no budget is passed

Roadwork will cease at the end of June unless lawmakers appropriate funds for IDOT.

By Brendan Bakala