Springfield News
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When Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget office initially pitched a pension buyout program as part of an overall state budget in February, the state was promised $423 million in annual savings from two pension buyout plans that eventually made their way into the FY2019 state budget.
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Illinois’ General Revenue Fund has borrowed 65 percent of its limit on interfund borrowing this fiscal year, taking advantage of the $1.2 billion limit for the time period beginning in July and ending in March, according to a new report from the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.
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Illinois courts have seen nearly 1 million fewer cases filed during the last five years, according to a new state report out this week reviewing the 2017 caseload of the court system.
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Gov. Bruce Rauner is in Washington, D.C. for only the third time in his official capacity as governor, this time to attend funeral services for former President George H.W. Bush at the National Cathedral.
Gov. Bruce Rauner delivers his concession speech on Nov. 6, 2018. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
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Nearly four weeks after Gov. Bruce Rauner lost his re-election bid to Democrat JB Pritzker, the two men appeared at the state’s Bicentennial celebration in Chicago, not side-by-side but acknowledging each other and agreeing on the need for bipartisanship fo move Illinois forward into the next 200 years.
Gov.-elect JB Pritzker, Secretary of State Jesse White and MK Prtizker celebrate Illinois' 200th birthday. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line] -
DEC 04, 2018
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State Police officials testified at a state Public Health Committee hearing Monday. Family members of murder victims also testified. [Johnathan Ballew/Block Club Chicago]
State Police officials testified Monday that more forensic scientists are coming to its backlogged crime lab, but acknowledged it could take five years to get caught up, in part, because of a national shortage of experts to process crime scene evidence.
The officials faced questions at a state Public Health Committee hearing called by State Senator Patricia Van Pelt (D-Chicago), who chairs the panel. Family members of murder victims with cases stuck in the backlog also testified, putting human faces on the stack of unsolved cases. -
Gov.-elect JB Pritzker may forgo giving a State of the State address next year, which would align him with other newly elected governors who have combined the traditional early-year addresses.
Democrat JB Pritzker addresses the party faithful at the 2018 Illinois Democratic County Chairs' Association Breakfast. [Photo courtesy of Lee Milner]
The Illinois Supreme Court building in Springfield on Nov. 29, 2018. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
