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* From a Feb. 25, 2015 Tribune story…
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Wednesday convened what was billed as the first meeting of his Cabinet, telling agency leaders that they’ll be asked to do more with less, but that he’s willing to “take the arrows” along the way.
“I wish this year was going to be all happy, and you know, happy feet. This is not going to be a happy feet year,” Rauner told the group of about 50 officials gathered in a Capitol meeting room. “This is going to be pretty rough, but we’re going to get through it. And I tell you, in 24 months we’re going to be on a very different trajectory as a state.”
That means we only have to wait 478 more days until prosperity begins sprouting all over the place!
* The Question: What will Feb. 25, 2017 look like? Snark is heavily encouraged, of course.
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:45 pm
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Unfortunately, a Mad Max movie.
Comment by Keyrock Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:47 pm
Q: What will February 25, 2017 look like?
A: http://humanevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/trainwreck-620×452.png
Comment by Hamlet's Ghost Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:50 pm
Bad link, my apologies, please delete.
It was supposed to be a link to an image of two trains colliding head on.
Comment by Hamlet's Ghost Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:52 pm
Groundhog Day
Comment by Endangered Moderate Species Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:52 pm
The Big Five will have made some real progress in their second meeting about the FY16 budget.
Comment by Arsenal Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:53 pm
Remember the Jetsons? That is what Illinois will look like in 478 days. Once we do away with collective bargaining and prevailing wage and workers’ comp - flying cars and homes on stilts will flow to Illinois.
Comment by 360 Degree TurnAround Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:54 pm
@Hamlet’s Ghost - A “link to nowhere” is actually an appropriate metaphor for the future of Illinois.
Comment by Omega Man Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:56 pm
President Donald Trump will have headache #4,368 because of his selection of Bruce Rauner of Illinois as his running mate.
Comment by Roamin' Numeral Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:56 pm
Cabinet members, your mileage, just like our previous two annual meetings will be paid when we pass our first budget.
Comment by Almost the Weekend Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:57 pm
The Capitol will be lit by torches
Barter will replace state transactions
State vehicles will be skateboards and bicycles - all stolen
The Illinois universities, including junior colleges, will be sold off as new Pullman Towns
The Department of Corrections will become one big mistake
Deregulations of every single business under the sun in Illinois becomes all too real.
Bridges become dead ends
“Bridges” become “dead ends”
K-12 Education finally become a statewide “home school” trend
Everything burns down, crime rises, hospitals become “self-serve” stops for health
Dirt roads become “fashionable”
Street lights in towns become expensive planters
Cook County Courts in Illinois become “state of the art” with all the carbon paper they have hoarded
Now… the bad that could happen…
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:57 pm
Prosperity is just around the corner.-Hoover
Prosperity is just 24 months away.-Rauner
Comment by DuPage Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:58 pm
Ummmm . . . like Happy Feet?
And the Governor will look like St. Sebastian.
Comment by Henry Francis Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:58 pm
Pat Quinn will be seen mowing the mansion’s lawn having just been sworn in to replace newly recalled ex-Gov Bruce Rauner.
Comment by Johnny Q. Suburban Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:01 pm
(building on the first comment)
The state capitol is now the Thunderdome.
Comment by lurkish Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:02 pm
Exactly like December 31st, 2015, since the office supply vendors will have cut the State off and there won’t be any new calendars in State offices.
Comment by Stuck on the 3rd Floor Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:02 pm
I will be living in a Van down by the river.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:03 pm
Like Feb.25,493 except with different names.
Comment by jt Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:03 pm
Venture capitalists will be chasing Clive Owen and an expectant mother around a dystopian landscape in hopes of commoditizing the biology behind the first pregnancy in recent memory.
Comment by Quizzical Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:03 pm
“When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood…”
– MrJM
Comment by MrJM Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:03 pm
A trailer park in Loami.
Comment by Jorge Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:05 pm
The rich will be richer and the poor will be poor. You say you want a revolutionnnnnn, well, you know…
Comment by anon Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:06 pm
Hopefully it will look like it did in early January 2015.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:06 pm
Rauner will have his own restaurant critique show on Food Network and will have given up all semblance of governin’.
Comment by Cubs in '16 Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:07 pm
Feb. 25, 2017 Cabinet meeting:
Rauner: I am proud of you. We have done more with less!
Honest Department Head: No, with less, we have done less.
Comment by Joe M Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:11 pm
IL will look like a third world country.
Nearby states will be complaining uh (building walls?) to cut down on the inflow of IL refugees.
Snark? Sure hope so.
Comment by sal-says Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:11 pm
HBO - “Dad’s Home State” - Season 3, Episode 109
Bruce and his Troopers have their bicycles stolen again. Diana enjoys a 4th month in Florida. Diana’s state employee tries to get Diana to return to “The Sara Lee Governor’s Mansion” by March. Goldberg writes his 15th apology, breaks pencil, “ck” makes another million dollars selling candles on the side. Comedy, 58 minutes.
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:13 pm
The capitol will become a frontier fort, with the surrounding countryside barren of timber.
For two pelts, you can have an audience with Governor Rauner, clad in buckle shoes.
Comment by Jocko Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:14 pm
I’m going to dial back some of the cynicism from this post and say it’ll look more like a Robocop movie.
Comment by Losing My Edge Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:14 pm
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true ooh oh
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops
That’s where you’ll find me
Oh, somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
And the dream that you dare to,
Oh why, oh why can’t I?
Comment by nobody Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:14 pm
On February 25, 2017, Springfield will be frozen (just like it is now). And Governor Rauner - having seen his shadow earlier in the month - will predict at least 6 more weeks of a budget impasse.
Comment by Christopher Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:16 pm
The World Series Champion Cubs will have completed their first week of Spring Training!
And Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti will host a fine cabinet meeting complete with cookies provided by former Comptroller Leslie Munger.
Comment by Ducky LaMoore Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:17 pm
Pitchforks in the streets of Springfield
Comment by Enviro Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:17 pm
It will be a great year for candle sales in the Capitol, and state offices! Oh, until the candle companies’ invoices aren’t paid and they stop delivering.
Comment by Motambe Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:20 pm
Maybe we’ll get lucky and get hit by an asteroid or something?
Comment by Stones Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:21 pm
Gov standing alone on the vacant streets of springfield. A cough echoes. Suddenly, a voice, “I’m your huckleberry”.
Comment by burbanite Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:23 pm
http://www.geardiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/hooverville.jpg
Comment by Mouthy Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:23 pm
“It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.”
Or at least until the 2018 election.
Comment by Anon. Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:23 pm
Rauner, telling agency leaders that they’ll be asked to do more with less.
Agency Leaders: Please send this Les Moore guy over, we need all the help we can get.
Comment by Disdale Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:24 pm
The agency director’s offices will be filled with arrows looking like the aftermath of Little Big Horn. The Governor - channelling his inner Dean Wormer - will be sitting in his office atop 500 bags of money, smoking a nice Havana cigar, watching the smoke and wildfires out his window and smiling proudly at chaos and calamity below.
Comment by Sangamo Sam Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:32 pm
Gov. Sanguinetti will be wishing Ambassador Rauner good luck in his new job in Austrailia in her state of the State address. Behind her John and Mike will be nodding their heads in unison echoing the new Gov.’s sentiments.
Comment by qualified somebody nobody sent Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:33 pm
Capitol Fax is just a series of open threads as there is nothing to report any more about Illinois govt.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:34 pm
Totally forgot the 24 months remark. Twenty four months…that seems fairly specific. Mother of God, somebody in his administration (Arduin) gamed this out at 24 months of hell. I wonder what the updated figure would be given Madigans’ refusal to cave?
Comment by Honeybear Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:34 pm
Brucie awakes from his coma and says “I was elected what!? I’m not qualified for that!!”
Comment by D.P.Gumby Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:36 pm
“President Trump’s nominee for Commerce Sec. told a Senate panel today that he has a few structural reforms that will be necessary before the Trump Administration proposes a budget for fiscal 2018.”
Comment by Gooner Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:36 pm
Think Thunder Dome.
Comment by John A Logan Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:38 pm
Surely by February of 2017 we’ll be eating rainbow stew with a silver spoon underneath that sky of blue. We’ll all be drinking that free bubble up and eating that rainbow stew!
Comment by Get a Job!! Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:38 pm
I finally understand it all. Rauner thought the work of being Governor didn’t start until the one-year anniversary of the election. I’m going to collect signatures to create an amendment to revise the oath of office to reflect that so we don’t have this happen again in the future.
Comment by Earnest Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:38 pm
Cairo, IL.
Never been there? Well its…its…nowhere near pretty.
Comment by Deep South Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:40 pm
Fallout 4. That’s what it’s going to look like. Wonder if the free motorcycle training classes will still be offered, or if the potholes will simply be too large?
BTW Below Video is Safe For Work. It’s just intended for older viewers. Safe. For. Work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aJfebzkrM
Comment by How Ironic Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:40 pm
On Feb. 25, 2017, Rauner will announce the 3rd leaders meeting since Nov. 18, 2015 to negotiate the FY 2016 budget.
On Feb. 25, 2017, Rauner will have an anniversary reception for the five original cabinet members to stay on since 2015.
On Feb. 25, 2017, the public spokesman for LIERS (the consolidated Department of Lottery, Insurance, Employment, Revenue and Student Assistance) announced that it would not continue with the proposed project to print tax forms on toilet paper. Because the state has no postage money, it was LIERS’ hope that grocery stores would accept these forms and sell them to Illinois residents. Unfortunately, grocery chains crapped out on the plan. Therefore, all tax returns must be done on the web.
On Feb. 25, 2017, STUPED (the consolidated State Police, Transportation, University Security and Emergency Management Department) has successfully sold the last of it’s idle gas driven vehicles. The money will be used to complete the acquisition of 10-speed bicycles for remaining officers.
Comment by Norseman Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:42 pm
After doing less with less, the agency directors placed the arrows they have collected in the last several months on a table at the front of the room. Later the Gov could ‘take the arrows’ back to his office to show reporters how hard he has worked.
Comment by zatoichi Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:42 pm
due to budget cuts, February 2017 will end on the 19th. I’m sorry folks, the state is BROKE. we can’t afford to enjoy a complete February every year.
Comment by Homer J. Quinn Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:42 pm
Former President Obama will be departing O’Hare Airport for his post-presidency in his home state of Hawaii after the Aloha state announces that it will build the presidential library Illinois struggles to approve any funding for.
Comment by VanillaMan Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:43 pm
Are you sure he didn’t tell them that they were winning and that their clients were running scared?
Comment by ash Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:43 pm
I’d bet BVR is walking with happy feet. He appears to be mighty proud of what he’s doing. I don’t believe for a second that he is sharing our pain about the present situation. He is making perfunctory comments that low information voters might believe.
Comment by illinoised Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:44 pm
In an attempt to keep the Obama Presidential Library in Illinois, Governor Bruce Rauner offers the former president the vacant Illinois Museum building in Springfield.
Comment by VanillaMan Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:44 pm
Michael J. Madigan buys Saputos. Rauner claims the move is an attempt to make the Governor look bad. In retaliation, Rauner buys Obed and Isaac’s, then strips down the brewery equipment, bocce ball courts, coffee shop and offers the now abandoned building to the Barack Obama Presidential Library Commission.
Comment by VanillaMan Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:49 pm
Just like the movie, “Groundhog Day”.
Comment by No Longer A Lurker Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:53 pm
The Rapture but with snow
Comment by Boone's is Back Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:55 pm
Thousands are selling apples on the street. Speaker Madoga. Is buying.
Comment by Keyrock Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:56 pm
Madigan is buying. (darned, odd, spellcheck).
Comment by Keyrock Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 1:57 pm
The magic beans will have sprouted and grown, and the land will be covered with wonderful crops of all kinds. All of the money needed for every imaginable state service will have been raised by taxing raisins.
Comment by Keyrock Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:00 pm
As Happy Feet penguins, displaced by global climate change frolic on the Chicago shore of Lake Michigan, thousands of mothers and their young children that can no longer access daycare, huddle in “Raunervilles” under El tracks.
Comment by Hawkeye in Illinois Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:02 pm
All residential centers for the severely disabled and prisons are closed. Chicago is turned into a giant walled prison colony and residence for the disabled, mentally ill after forced into bankruptcy. “Escape From Chi-Raq” The Tribune Editorial Board is given offices in the Governor’s Mansion. Disappointed that he could not gain a Republican Majority in either house, Rauner now offers to compromise with Madigan on the budget. He’ll give the Democrats credit for tanking the state if Madigan accepts his Turnaround Agenda. Rauner does agree to raise taxes to cover the massive lawsuit settlement for Evelyn Sanguinetti’s accident.
Comment by Wensicia Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:02 pm
We will be back to bartering with Wampum.
Comment by Big Joe Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:05 pm
The future will be as dark as the souls of all the commenters making apocalyptic predictions, like me, and I believe the future will look like a Charles Dickens novel.
Comment by AC Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:09 pm
Two years from now at a closed meeting with Republican legislators: “We’re winning. The Democrats are running scared. Just hang on a little longer.”
Comment by walker Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:17 pm
A boil-infested homeless man shuffles up to Rauner and rasps, “Don’t back down, Governor.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:26 pm
After giant meteor strike Duluth in December causing widespread chaos, 2016, Trib editorial writer pens piece hoping for giant meteor to hit IL.
Comment by Gooner Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:29 pm
Blade Rauner
Comment by Carhartt Representative Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:29 pm
Gooner wins.
Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:32 pm
Bruce Rauner announces that Indiana has bought Illinois for $4,000,000,000, Missouri has agreed to pick up Metro-East St. Louis for $400,000 and free canoe rides on the Merrimack River, Wisconsin has leased Northeastern Illinois to convert into a Toxic Cheese Reserve which will be monitored by the Federal Government, Iowa has bought Western Illinois for $2,000,000 while allowing the counties to keep 10% of the corn crop value for the next twenty years, and Chicago will be permitted to become its own state, with the exception of the Northern Suburbs from O’Hare to Illinois Beach, which becomes a satellite enclave of The Caymans.
Governor Rauner pockets $1,000,000,000 in finder fees, royalties and residuals, announces his retirement and flies to Montana.
Comment by VanillaMan Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:35 pm
Tomorrow will look like today as much as autumn looks like spring, because that 24 month clock has yet to start ticking. But, even a broken clock is right twice a day, and by Ilinois stardards that’s pretty good.
Comment by Leeroye Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:35 pm
1. All State agencies will be owned & re-named by Wall Street. The only state employees will be Rauner’s cabinet & super stars. All employees will be individual contractors.
2. All kids will go to a private charter school or be home schooled.
3. Only kids from wealthy families will go to college.
4. Retirees and the poor will only be able to eat three times a week.
5. Women with children will not be allowed to work outside of the home.
Comment by Mama Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:36 pm
Rauner and his Tea Party wants to turn the clock back to 1950!
Comment by Mama Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:38 pm
Vanilla Man: Are you saying the Big Zero will be in the Big Sky State? (Be still our hearts!)
Comment by Roscoe Tom Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:40 pm
“Gov. Bruce Rauner on Wednesday convened what was billed as the first meeting of his Cabinet, telling agency leaders that they’ll be asked to do more with less”
It sounds like is Cabinet members won’t get a pay increase.
Comment by Mama Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:40 pm
“A trailer park in Loami.” Say what you will, but three tornadoes went through the greater Loami area in the 21st century, and not one of them hit the trailer park.
To the post: I’m reminded of an insurance ad a few years ago where a guy is rushed to the emergency room because “he has money coming out the wazoo!” “Does he have insurance?” “Insurance?? He has money coming out the wazoo!” That’ll be Illinois. Maybe.
Comment by Skeptic Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:43 pm
- Gooner -
Restaurant-Quality.
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:45 pm
There will be no more Dept. of Human Services (no social programs), State Board of Education or Higher Ed., Dept. of Ag or the Dept. of Natural Resources, etc.. No more public schools or universities, etc..
Comment by Mama Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:45 pm
Snow will be covering the crash site at the state capitol.
Comment by Aldyth Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:47 pm
And Ilinoy can no longer afford superfluous consonats or vowels for that matter. Sell the diphthong!
Comment by Leeroye Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:50 pm
it will look like france circa July 17,1789….. with Rauner standing in front of the capitol ready to offer cake to the masses
Comment by Ghost Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:50 pm
==”This is not going to be a happy feet year,” Rauner told the group of about 50 officials gathered in a Capitol meeting room. “This is going to be pretty rough, but we’re going to get through it.” == *Rauner passes a law to eliminate dancing.
“And I tell you, in 24 months we’re going to be on a very different trajectory as a state.” *Translation: In 24 months, there will be no more Dems in IL.
Comment by Mama Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:53 pm
“in 24 months we’re going to be on a very different trajectory as a state”
Blowing things up does change their trajectory.
Comment by AC Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 3:14 pm
The Governor and his cabinet will have their second meeting of his term.
Comment by GA Watcher Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 3:22 pm
Whatever Illinois looks like it will look like it from a distance for me. Hello retirement!
Comment by Bluegrass Boy Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 3:33 pm
I want boxes to check:
funny
funnier
funniest
Comment by Just a guy Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 3:33 pm
It will look like the day after the 24th
Comment by Empty Suit Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 3:49 pm
OW, that episode will be a classic!
Comment by Flynn's Mom Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 3:50 pm
February 25, 2017 you say. Very simple, easily solved, place the digits in squares, 0,2,2,5,2,0,1 and 7. Add them:19, multiply by the same number 19X19=361, add those, 3+6+1=10,add those 1+0=1, we will be precisely back at square one, simple mathematics.
Comment by ottawa otter Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 3:57 pm
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” or is it … “Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder”?
Comment by forwhatitsworth Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 3:58 pm
Potterville.
Comment by Austin Blvd Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 4:17 pm
Well, I’m not certain what illinois will look like then, but I already hear the music from the Twilight Zone starting up. I hear Rod Serling’s voice…
Comment by South Central Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 5:25 pm
Feb. 25, 2017 … The UN and Jimmy Carter are in Springfield to hold high level talks and negotiations between the Democrats, Republicans and the Governor. VP Biden makes a call for a 3 State solution to the Illinois problem. CapitolFax becomes the go to source of national news outlets to understand the Illinois quandary. Several commentators on CapitolFax make pleas for the outside media no to refer to Illinois as Illinoise.
Comment by FormerParatrooper Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 7:26 pm
Nobody @ 1:14
Years ago I was part of a response team to the suicide of a 10 year old girl who had hung herself in her bedroom; will never, ever forget her mom and dad and then in some strange, karmic way, this song came on NPR as I drove home. These deaths, this sadness, this song will be on you Governor.
Comment by Tucker Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 7:48 pm
It will look like the south-west side of Springfield did in March 2006 after the twin tornadoes.
Comment by RNUG Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 9:06 pm
Clark St. finally reopens as Chicago Cubs World Series Champs celebration comes to end.
Comment by Gooner Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 9:21 pm
Recall Day One Amen He’s Gone
Comment by quincy Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 9:29 pm
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Wednesday March 2016 convened what was billed as the second meeting of his Cabinet from his bunker in Capitol, telling agency leaders that we are now in an “apocalyptic state” (Madigan’s fault) and they’ll be asked to do more with nothing, but be aware of any unionized zombies within your “locked down” facilities. Then starts dancing to the Pharrel Williams song “Happy” that is being broadcast thru National Gaurd and IEMA command centers around the state. (As a side note WI, IA, MO and IN are taking in refugees, WI is overwhelmed with people coming from the the Chicago metro area).
Comment by XDNR Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 9:42 pm
Too Long in the Wasteland, becomes the song of the Illinois Territory. President Trump selects Ivanka to be Governor of the Illinois Territory. Trump buys the Springfield Hilton, because it is symbolic of what happened to the State of Illinois.
Comment by lost in the weeds Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 9:44 pm
The voters of Illinois finally realize they have elected the “Manchurian Candidate”.
Comment by NewWestSuburbanGOP'er Friday, Nov 6, 15 @ 7:53 am
Feb. 1 2017, Gov.Rauner and Rep. Madigan announce a special meeting for legisative leaders to try to find a compromise to finally pass a FY 2016 budget.
Comment by Anonymous Friday, Nov 6, 15 @ 8:43 am