* Both chambers have now adjourned for the spring. Click here to see what passed and what didn’t and what might get vetoed. Tribune…
In the end, it may have been appropriate that one of the major budget implementation bills was shoehorned into legislation that began as an effort to make the soybean the “official state bean.” Illinois legislators wound up writing their own version of the old saw that people should never see how sausage and the law is made, replacing it with tofu.