No budget, not even K-12 funding as Illinois legislature adjourns
By Harvard Zhang Springfield, Ill.— No K-12 funding plan, let alone a fiscal 2017 budget, cleared the Illinois legislature before midnight Tuesday when the spring legislative session ended, threatening to throw the financially-beleaguered state into a second budget-less year with alarming economic, financial and social implications. Disagreement among the legislature-controlling Democrats derailed two bills their […]