Prediction: Leslie Munger will clobber him.

This was the one-month version of the $4 billion one-year unbalanced budget.

As Peter Murphy’s taxpayer-funded salary nears $400,000, the cost of his eventual public pension grows with it. Last year, in addition to his $360,000 salary — more than double what former Gov. Pat Quinn made — Murphy received $103,000 in contributions toward his future state pension, according to data from the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. That’s despite the fact that Murphy’s job as head of the Illinois Association of Park Districts isn’t actually a government job.

While workers face layoffs, state legislators won’t feel the pinch, thanks to a bill passed last year. It classifies legislator pay as a continuing appropriation . The bill puts compensating part-time legislators on par with the state’s big-ticket items such as debt and pension payments and retiree health benefits. This bill was pushed through the General Assembly on the last day of the 2014 spring session, with full support from Democratic supermajorities in both chambers.

Hat tip to Paul Merrion who tweeted this.

Just a month-to-month version of an annualized $4 billion deficit budget.

It does certainly look like Rauner’s given in a lot and offered to compromise over and over and over again. His Turnaround Agenda has boiled down from a laundry list to five. And then there was his last-minute offer to float Chicago some millions to help public school officials make their pension payment and payroll.

Plenty of things continue to get paid, but some Illinoisans will suffer.

Illinois lawmakers won’t pass a budget by the fiscal year’s start and instead will authorize a one-month continuation of spending to avoid a shutdown, House Speaker Michael Madigan said.

Gov. Bruce Rauner has cut $68 million in already-funded road construction or other bricks-and-mortar projects.

Nearly 5 million more Americans would qualify for overtime pay under new rules proposed Tuesday by the Obama administration. About 200,000 workers in Illinois would be eligible.