The Illinois Chamber of Commerce is floating a plan that would inject an additional $2 billion a year into the state budget for transportation, largely by raising the state’s motor-fuel tax from 19 cents a gallon now to 44 cents.

From the perspective of Marshall, in central IL.

“Speaker Madigan, you publicly admitted that you failed to protect the people from abuse of power, retaliation, sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination by state officials and employees in your apology letter saying you didn’t do enough. I believed it,” Rotheimer said. “It’s time to remove the flag that you put on House Bill 1474 and allow the people who file ethics complaints [to have] rights.”