With a budget and capital plan still being sorted out — not to mention an expansive gambling measure that would add a Chicago casino, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan has opted to extend adjournment of the spring legislative session until Sunday.

The extension means that any vote taken after May 31 will require a three-fifths majority to for the law to go into effect within the next 12 months — and legislators will likely use Friday to handle the state’s budget.

Comment: We missed this a couple days ago when it came out, but it’s important and outrageous. Read the whole thing.

And there’s a separate Budget Implementation Bill of 1,088 pages linked here! The lawmakers who will vote on this have little idea what’s in it. Nor does the public. And thousands of pages of other critical bills are being likewise shoved through today. No summaries published that we’ve seen yet.

Comment: Former Illinoisan Joel Pollak, who wrote this article, is probably going too far thinking Illinois would go red. However, it will indeed be interesting to see how much blowback results from this catastrophic legislative session now ending.

Top states with largest enrollment decrease by number of students:

• Florida -48,363
• California -44,940
• Illinois -30,466
• Michigan -17,278
• Pennsylvania -16,853

‘Quite literally’ a ‘speech police.’ According to University of Illinois policy, students are prohibited from posting and distributing “leaflets, handbills, and any other types of materials” concerning non-campus elections without “prior approval” from administrators.

Franklin Templeton Investments says no way.

In an item of particular importance to some companies, the General Assembly has approved and sent to Gov. J.B. Pritzker a measure to extend the life of the state’s tax credit for research and development.