“When they’re (the schools) going through the budgeting process right now, they’re also going through their levy process,” State Rep. Avery Bourne, R-Raymond, said. “This also forces upward pressure on property taxes, which is something the governor has said he wants to alleviate, but creating this kind of uncertainty does the opposite.”

Nearly identical to one served last week on Merrionette Park, federal prosecutors served the village of Bridgeview with a subpoena looking for records on a consultant with deep ties to Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan. That investigation is examining, at least in part, if Madigan put the arm on ComEd — which the Legislature helps regulate — to hire certain lobbyists who then allegedly did little or no work.