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Restructuring of McLean County’s Behavioral Health Coordinating Council is complete, and as McLean County Board Chair Catherine Metsker promised when she suspended meetings in March, the group now has a defined — and codified — structure, with clear objectives.
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State Sen. Tom Bennett of Gibson City says the state's plan to add a new tax on sportsbooks and increase taxes on gaming is the wrong approach to balancing Illinois' books.
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Without city help, Pritzker and Preckwinkle to ask for $250 million more to help fund migrant crisisGov. J.B. Pritzker and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s funding agreement is noticeably missing a key partner: the city of Chicago. And it comes after Pritzker, Preckwinkle and Mayor Brandon Johnson met in January and this month to discuss how to further fund the crisis.
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Illinois State University’s proposed budget for next year totals more than $561 million. That’s an 8% increase in revenues, or a $41 million jump, over the fiscal year 2023 budget that began in July.
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The tentative FY23-24 budget is about 10% higher than last year, and includes a $173 million operating plan.
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The Unit 5 school board will vote on the $232.9 million budget next month, followed by the district setting an annual tax levy in December.
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The District 87 school board will get its first look at its $89.9 million spending plan Wednesday night.
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Members of both parties have increased the budget deficit in the last decade, U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood said Tuesday. And both major parties will have to participate in any successful effort to reduce it.
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Starting next fall, there’ll be no more sports or clubs for Unit 5 junior high students — no sports teams for freshmen, and no band/orchestra for fifth-graders.
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Unit 5 schools have talked about a tax referendum for at least a couple of months, according to January school board finance committee minutes.