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With comments from Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski.
Comment: $162 million in funding for road improvements and utility extensions to connect the site of the proposed South Suburban Airport to I-57 near Monee, but there’s no indication from airlines that they would go there!
Streeterville, remember, is “MAGA country,” or at least that’s what Jussie Smollett’s attackers supposedly said.
“We must ‘make big plans; aim high in hope and work.'”
The new state budget doles out money for new buildings and the yet-to-be-built Discovery Partners Institute, as well as the most money ever for the state’s student financial assistance program.
Unexpectedly tucked away in Illinois’ $40 billion 2020 budget was another giveaway to the state’s teachers unions. School districts are once again more free to spike end-of-career teacher salaries and pass-on the resulting pension costs to state taxpayers.
Illinois’ “historic” legislative session was enough to keep the state’s credit rating stable, but it did nothing to move Illinois away from the cliff of a first-ever junk rating for a state.
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