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  • Pritzker outlines $41.6 billion budget with flat spending

    Jerry Nowicki and Peter Hancock, Capitol News Illinois|Updated Feb 18, 2021

    Gov. JB Pritzker outlined a $41.6 billion budget proposal Wednesday that would hold most state agencies at flat funding levels but which relies heavily on changes to the state’s corporate tax structure that lawmakers have not yet approved. The budget proposal, which is only the governor’s request for lawmakers in the General Assembly, does not call for income tax increases. Over the next four months, lawmakers will work on an operating budget of their own to send to the gov...