Region weighs budget path as Illinois faces split over funds
Local officials express optimism and concern as lawmakers struggle to pass a final state budget. The governor and House Speaker Madigan clash over whether 200 million should stay in key line items, affecting projects from Illinois 13 widening to the World Shooting Complex funding. Education funding and higher education face potential cuts, with university leaders and school officials urging timely action to avoid program reductions and costly campus decisions.
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Michael Madigan
Southern Illinois
Marion
Bob Butler
Illinois 13
Carterville
Blagojevich
Butler
Sparta
Dan Reitz
D-Steeleville
Amateur
Reitz
University of Illinois
Illinois
Madigan
Janet Ulrich
Union
Johnson
Pulaski
Alexander
Massac
Jackson
Perry County
Lional
Donald Brewer
Brewer
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Walter Wendler
Wendler
Zeigler 11 mine sale date in doubt amid Horizon bankruptcy
Prospective buyer for Zeigler 11 mine near Coulterville faces uncertain filing of Horizon Natural Resources reorganization in Lexington Kentucky as auction set for August 17. Horizon, once AEI Resources, has led a 2002 Chapter 11 saga tied to Zeigler 11 and wage cut talks with the United Mine Workers.
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Coulterville
Isner
Lexington
HNR
Kentucky
West Virginia
Illinois
Indiana
Colorado
Zeigler 11
AEI Resources
AEI
Horizon Natural Resources
Horizon
Zeigler Coal Holding Co
Old Ben Coal Co
Southern Illinois
Eastern Kentucky
Zeigler No. 11
United Mine Workers
Umwa Fund
UMW International
Cecil Roberts
Blagojevich calls for special session to finish budget
Illinois Governor Blagojevich urged lawmakers to return to Springfield for a special session after missing the May 31 budget deadline. The plan faces a three-fifths majority requirement in both chambers and a July deadline to avoid a government shutdown. The dispute centers on a roughly 200 million gap between competing budget proposals from Senate President Emil Jones and Speaker Madigan along with Watson and Cross. Daily per-diem of 95 dollars for returning lawmakers would cost at least 16,815 dollars daily for the legislature.
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Blagojevich
Springfield
Senate
Emil Jones
Chicago
House
Michael Madigan
Watson
Tom Cross
Roswego
Dale Righter
Rmattoon
Illinois
Righter
Steve Brown
Madigan
Brown
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