Well, everyone wanted to see details from Gov. JB Pritzker about his graduated income tax plan, and now they’ve got them.

And pretty much nothing has changed. Republicans, business groups and the like all hate the plan. They hated it before there were any details, but now they can feel vindicated.

Less than two years after Illinois started using taxpayer dollars to send students to private schools, newly-elected Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker wants to kill the scholarship program that benefits more than 7,000 students.

Saying it diverts state money that could go to public schools, Pritzker has proposed phasing it out over the next three years. He hopes to get legislation passed in Springfield this spring. But private schools and scholarship winners said the program gives them options, and they’re going to fight to keep it alive.

Outside the wide, well-lit hallways of New Berlin Elementary School, there’s a roomy expanse of school district-owned farmland, and to the south of that, the problem that farmland might one day solve.

The junior-senior high school, first built just after World War I, has been cobbled together with five additions, the latest of which was a half-century ago. The oldest section’s electrical grid won’t support air conditioning. The cramped cafeteria hosts so many lunch periods they nearly collide with breakfast and dinner.

Residents of the 83rd state House District in the Aurora area have a new state representative: Barbara Hernandez.

Hernandez, 26, a Kane County Board member in District 8 and an Aurora native, was sworn in last week to succeed her mentor, Linda Chapa LaVia, who has been nominated by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to serve as director of the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs.