Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislative leaders are set to resume budget talks again Thursday morning as a stopgap spending plan is set to expire at year’s end, and the governor is laying out his terms before the meeting even begins.

Facing continued resistance from Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan over a push for a comprehensive budget agreement that also includes economic reforms, Rauner released a video on Facebook overnight saying he’s open to another temporary spending plan but with two conditions.

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday plans to announce a property tax freeze bill and term limits resolutions — two key reforms he said he needs to agree to a stopgap budget.

Rauner announced his plans via a video on his Facebook page Thursday morning, calling on Democrats to work on a full-year balanced budget with reforms, instead of a stopgap budget, which the state has been running on since July.

State prison officials on Wednesday moved the last 36 inmates out of a Stateville Correctional Center “roundhouse” — a complex that a Chicago watchdog group dubbed “not fit for human habitation.”

The maximum-security F House at Stateville in Crest Hill — which housed 348 male inmates — is officially closed, the Illinois Department of Corrections said. No other prison in the U.S. has kept roundhouses, in which cells circle a watchtower in the middle. The F House was intended for inmates who posed a threat to staff or other inmates.

A massive plan to bolster Illinois’ nuclear industry and expand energy efficiency programs will get a House floor vote Thursday on the final day of the General Assembly’s fall session, despite concerns by critics that the measure amounts to a multibillion-dollar bailout.

The Energy Committee voted 9-1 late Wednesday evening to advance the legislation that funnels $235 million a year to power-producing giant Exelon Corp. for 13 years. The money subsidizes unprofitable nuclear plants in Clinton and the Quad Cities that Exelon said would be shuttered over the next 18 months.

They came. They met. They disagreed. Again.

Gov. Bruce Rauner and the four legislative leaders Wednesday continued their meetings on reforms and possibly a new spending plan, but left the 90-minute session again without seeming to make progress on ending the state’s two-year budget impasse.

The leading House Republican said the leading House Democrat is more interested in political theater than finding solutions to grow the state’s economy and balance the budget.

With bipartisan support, the Illinois House overwhelmingly approved a resolution opposing an income tax hike during a lame-duck session.

Top City Hall aides on Wednesday were trying to round up votes at the Capitol to secure lawmakers’ approval of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to shore up two city worker pension funds.

The goal is to avert a financial meltdown of retirement plans for municipal workers and laborers. The funds are a combined $21 billion short of what’s needed to pay out future benefits and could go broke in a decade or so without a fix.

About three dozen state lawmakers Wednesday called on Gov. Bruce Rauner to resume contract negotiations with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union.

Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, said it is “critical” that contract talks resume.

The Illinois General Assembly has approved a measure allowing home health care workers to get overtime pay for work over 40 hours a week.

Ronald Reagan was president when Michael Madigan, a Democrat, became speaker of the Illinois House in 1983. Reagan served two terms and died in 2004, and his name adorns schools, roads, parks and an airport. A generation has passed since he left the White House.

And Madigan? He is still speaker, and has been for all but two years since he started. He appears to be as permanent a feature of the Illinois landscape as the Mississippi River.

Gov. Bruce Rauner today tightened the screws another notch on the state government’s largest employee union, moving to unilaterally test and discipline workers suspected of drug or alcohol abuse—an action the union will have trouble fighting in the court of public opinion.

In a statement, Rauner said he would implement a clause in stalled contract negotiations with AFSCME allowing action against those “who are under the influence of a banned substance or alcohol while on the job (and) present a risk to their co-workers and the taxpayers they serve.”

The City Council on Wednesday unanimously authorized a transit tax-increment financing district in hopes of nailing down $1.1 billion in federal grants to modernize the CTA’s Red Line before President Barack Obama leaves office.

After the vote, Mayor Rahm Emanuel affixed his signature to the various ordinances. That’s because Wednesday was literally the deadline for the city to demonstrate its commitment to providing local matching funds.

East St. Louis Township Supervisor Oliver Hamilton is expected to plead guilty to wire fraud charges Thursday in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis.

Hamilton, 63, was charged earlier this month. He waived indictment and announced his intent to plead guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael Reagan. The hearing begins at 10 a.m. Reporters will be tweeting live from the courthouse.