Column: Slow revenue growth complicates Pritzker’s budget plans – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "With two of the state’s three major revenue sources limping along, Illinois is finding itself on a financial precipice as it faces the new budget year beginning July 1. ... A recent report indicate that Illinois revenues increased by $65 million (1.4 percent) in January compared with the same month last year. Unfortunately, that growth was attributable to a $139 million boost in federal aid, not state sources."