WCIA 3: 'Quinn To Make Annual Budget Address Tomorrow'
News-Democrat (Belleville) : 'Pre-K cuts likely in Illinois school system'
AP: 'Southwestern Ill. village lays off 18 workers'
News-Sun (Lake County) - 'School Board looks at $4 million in cuts'
Daily Mail (Olney) : 'West Richland cuts several teaching positions'
KTVI: 'Granite City Early Childhood Center Fights To Stay Open'
WIFR: 'Job Cuts and Budget Woes in District 122'
3.8.10 News Links
WREX 13: 'Long-awaited Illinois budget speech coming Wednesday'
Tribune: 'Letter: 'A
Balanced Approach''
Sun-Times: 'Ill. budget to hit schools, police, child care'
Journal-Courier: 'Painful school cuts loom for districts'
WMBD Central IL: 'Quinn's Office Warns Cities: Expect Less Funding in 2011'
WBEZ: 'How Illinois Corrections Department Would Handle Budget Cuts'
SJ-R: 'Ball-Chatham parents fight to keep pre-K'
ABC7 Chicago: 'UIC students, faculty push gov. for more funding'
3.5.10 News Links
Sun-Times: '200 at U. of I. protest delay of $487M in state funding'
Register-Mail: 'Illinois schools chief warns of massive cuts'
Quad-City Times: 'Rockridge considers cuts'
Pantagraph: 'Budget crisis keeps inmates from needed mental help'
Sun-Times: 'Editorial: Budget cuts diminish Illinois' universities'
Journal&Topics: 'State Owes Local Schools Millions'
KFVS 12: 'SIC, RLC Leaders: layoffs possible in 2011 budget'
Pantagraph: 'School leaders: More questions than answers on budget cuts'
3.4.10 News Links
KHQA-Quincy: 'Illinois misses monthly payment to Mt. Sterling'
Mt. Vernon Register-News: 'State stops base funding of colleges'
Chicago Free Press: 'How GLBT non-profits are coping with new economic realities'
WJBD-Salem: 'State Sen. Jones Talks Illinois Budget Situation'
Murphysboro American: 'Updated: Senate moves slowly on budget cut plans'
Pantagraph: 'State universities could start taking out loans to pay expenses'
Illinois Statehouse News: 'University Borrowing OK'd, Medicaid Borrowing Shelved'
3.2.10 News Links
Fox43 Bloomington:
'6,000 Ilinoisans Give Feedback on State Budget'
State Journal-Register: 'Editorial: Sorting through budget thoughts'
Progress Illinois: 'The Tribune's Faulty Fiscal Approach'
Daily Herald: 'Local lawmakers warn of deep school cuts'
News-Democrat: 'U of I tuition could rise by 20 percent next year'
Journal-Star: 'Real sense of fear in Tremont Cuts'
Benton Evening News: 'Some schools dip into reserves as state budget belt tightens'
3.1.10 News Links
Daily Herald: 'Letter: Support comprehensive tax reform in Illinois'
SaukValley.com: 'Mitchell, Bivins: Tax increases are coming'
WAND TV17: 'Non-profit groups in need of timely state funding'
Sun-Times: 'Range of services at risk due to city, state budgets'
WJBD Radio: 'Extension Centers Looking at 25% Funding Cut'
Post-Dispatch: 'Ideas to fix Illinois budget run from the ordinary to the exotic'
KWMU: 'Quinn continues push for income tax hike'
Register-Star: 'By the numbers: How Illinois’ fiscal picture adds up'
WGIL Radio: 'Another Group Suggests Tax Increase = School Funding'
2.26.10 News Links
Wall Street Journal: 'Illinois Seeks to Boost Taxes, Cut Spending'
Springfield SJ-R: 'Teachers turn out for school district budget forum'
Peoria Journal Star: 'Peoria County expecting state funding shortfall'
NYT Chicago News Co-op: 'Looking to Taxes as Solution to a Crisis'
ABC 7 Chicago: 'Public offers budget-balancing suggestions'
Public News Service: 'State Budget Cuts Devastate Job Market for People with Disabilities'
WAND TV 17 (NBC) - Education advocates rally for preschool funding (VIDEO)
2.25.10 News Links
Southtown Star: 'Quinn seeks budget help-from you'
Chicago Tribune: 'Quinn details $2 billion in spending cuts'
CBS2 Chicago: 'Gov. Pat Quinn Won't Back Down On Call For Tax Hike'
WSIL - 'Budget "Catastrophe" Predicted for Schools'
Northwest Herald: 'Public colleges plead for state payments'
MyFox IL: 'State Superintendent Says Schools Face Funding Cliff'
Daily Herald: 'CLC raises tuition for first time in two years'
Rockford Register Star: '6 voice concerns on Extension woes'
2.24.10 News Links
Tribune: 'Illinois stuck in a ‘historic, epic’ budget crisis'
Sun-Times: 'Marin: Politicians can't sugarcoat Illinois' dire straits'
KHQA: 'More trickle down from Illinois budget woes'
CBS 2 Chicago: 'Oswego Schools To Cut 80 Employees'
KWQC 6 - 'Moline Considers School Budget Cuts'
Associated Press: 'Quinn stands behind tax increase'
Herald-Review: 'State budget web site launches today'
2.23.10 News Links
Progress IL: 'How Exactly Do We 'Cut First'?'
MyFox IL: 'State Budget Info Goes Online Wednesday'
Huffington Post: 'HIV Services Face Foreclosure: Will Illinois Leaders Come to the Rescue?'
Pekin Times: 'Funding cuts threaten local programs'
Chicago Sun-Times: 'Frustrated schools advertising how much they're owed'
IL Statehouse News: 'Civic Federation Proposes Tax Hike to Fix Ailing Budget'
2.22.10 News Links
Sun-Times: 'Governments are drowning in red ink, and it's time to act'
Register-Star: 'LTE: State needs new revenue'
Tribune: 'Income tax hike: 'Civic Federation calls for Illinois income tax increase'
Daily Journal: 'State's school payment shortfall -- in detail'
WSIL TV: 'School Districts Forced To Lay Off Staff'
SJ-R: 'State backlog totals $725 million'
Sun-Times: 'Only big tax increase can dig out Illinois'
SJ-R - 'Schools being squeezed by late state payments'
Decatur Herald-Review: 'Public schools brace for uncertainty, bad news from state'
2.19.10 News Links
Herald-Review: 'State budget woes put a hurt on a variety of local agencies'
Progress Illinois: 'Are We At The Breaking Point?'
Comm-News: 'Hoopeston schools see bleak finances'
Rockford Register-Star: 'Analysis: Revenue woes won’t stop in Illinois'
KFVS 12: 'Tamaroa faces layoffs, cuts in light of state budget crisis'
Pantagraph: 'Universities push for action on state budget'
RBC 'We Can't Wait Rally and Lobby Day' Articles:
WAND TV 17: 'Tax Reform Rally (Video)'
Progress Illinois: 'Protestors Flood The Capitol To Push For Fair Budget'
Q-C Times: 'Talk of tax increases take center stage in Illinois'
WMBD TV: 'Rally at State Capitol for Tax Hike'
Pantagraph: 'Talk of tax increases take center stage in Capitol'
SJ-R: 'Thousands rally for tax increase to fix budget'
Belleville News-Democrat: 'Raise our taxes! 2,000 rally in Springfield, calling for state to increase its revenue'
Additional 2.18.10 News Links:
Register-Mail: 'Knoxville schools face $650K shortfall'
Daily-News: 'Jasper schools outline $1 million in cuts'
SJ-R: 'NCSL warns state budgets suffering, could get worse'
News-Trib: 'School funding a concern in Putnam County'
Benton Evening News: 'Debt-ridden state takes toll on BCHS funding'
Tribune: 'Nonprofit groups hang by a thread waiting for state funds'
2.16.10 News Links
Gapers Block: 'RBC Takes to the Capitol'
StL Today: 'Ill. religious leaders ask lawmakers to support tax increase'
SJ-R: 'Editorial: Madigan, Cross must find common ground'
Daily Herald: 'State funding shortage may doom library systems'
SJ-R: 'Rochester, Hillsboro school boards to consider cuts for 2010-11'
ABC 7 Chicago:
'Plainfield school district to make deep cuts'
2.12.10 News Links
Daily-News: 'State’s issues causing budget crunch at Dieterich'
MyFox Illinois: 'Free Rides for Seniors May Be Hitting Last Stop'
SW News-Herald: 'Budget Cuts Hamper Met. Family’s Teen-REACH'
Daily Herald: 'College leaders urge state to make reliable payments'
Daily Herald: 'Advocacy group says children suffering in budget crisis'
Journal-Standard: 'Learning to cut with scissors: State preschool grant cuts a possibility'
2.11.10 News Links
Daily Herald: 'State libraries may be the next victim of state's financial woes'
Daily Herald: 'How you could get a say in fixing state budget'
Daily News: 'Late state payments frustrate Altamont schools'
Pantagraph: 'Official: State cuts to local AIDS programs are 'devastating''
Medill Reports: 'Budget cuts cause unrest in higher education'
Naperville Sun: 'State set to cut funding for schools'
Journal-News: 'Litchfield Schools Make Budget Cuts'
2.11.10 News Links
WREX 13: 'Belvidere School District looks for budget solutions'
WSIL: 'City Council Considers Cuts for Community Organizations'
News-Democrat: 'Belleville's money woes may mean layoffs for city workers'
StL Today: 'Illinois lawmakers consider cutting some scholarship, tuition reduction programs'
Pantagraph: 'Merit-based raises will not happen for ISU employees this year'
StL Today: 'Illnois school districts, universities slam state for late payments'
2.9.10 News Links
Daily Herald: 'Letter to the Editor: Tax reform might save state'
Progress Illinois: 'Get Ready for a Human Services Showdown in Springfield'
Chicago Sun-Times: 'Higher education going under'
Tribune.com: 'Public universities seek promised state funds'
Fox Valley Sun: 'D204 expects state funding cuts'
Wall Street Journal: 'When The State Can't Pay, Small Employers Face Cash Drought'
2.8.10 News Links
SJ-R: 'State lawmakers returning this week to packed agenda'
Journal-Courier: 'Editorial: State deficit demands attention'
Daily Illini: 'Illinois budget crisis touches all stakeholders of state universities'
Pantagraph: 'Illinois' MAP grant dilemma vexing students'
Register-News: 'State behind on payments to District 80'
Journal-Courier - 'Cuts loom as state money grows seriously short'
Southtown Star: 'Southland schools look at layoffs, program cuts over state aid delays'
2.5.10 News Links
SJ-R: 'City's last branch library closed by budget crisis'
Daily Chronicle: 'Room and board could increase at NIU'
Tribune: 'Evanston gives reprieve to branch libraries'
W-S Journal: 'Families feeling financial strain of college education'
KMOV: 'Metro East parents frustrated over budget cuts in school districts'
Sauk Valley News: 'Extension plans to consolidate, downsize offices'
2.4.10 News Links
Paris Beacon: 'District 95 cuts teachers due to funding'
Pantagraph: 'Program, staff cuts at Pontiac schools after tax vote'
SJ-R: 'Last library branch closes today'
KHQA: 'U of I extension offices hold public forums as state funds dwindle'
KTVI-FOX2: 'Small Illinois Town Fighting to Keep School Sports and More'
Effingham Daily News: 'Unit 40 faces cuts'
2.3.10 News Links
Daily Chronicle: DeKalb Schools expecting $2.4 million deficit
ABC7: 'Hungry people on the rise in Chicago area'
DEN News: 'Delayed state funding affecting Eastern'
Herald Review: 'Macon County ready to act to avoid effects of coming cash crunch'
Daily News: 'U of I seeks input on local programming cuts'
2.2.10 News Links
KHQA: 'IL lawmakers anticipate tough budget year'
Public Radio: 'Weak staffing hurts order in the courts'
Comm-News: 'VCHD budget reduced $400K'
Daily Herald: 'Lake Park aims to trim $1.7 million'
Northwest Herald: 'Extension eyeing cost cuts'
Courier News: 'Special-needs pupils victims of state financial woes'
2.1.10 News Links
Chicago Tribune: 'Letter: Create new taxes to pay for this state'
Herald-News: 'Valley View budget deficit could prompt big cuts'
Northwest Herald: 'Schools eye bottom line as revenue dips'
Public News Service: 'Will IL Voters Equate Budget Mess with Ballot Choices?'
Q-C Times: 'Waiting list for mental health help could swell'
Journal-Courier: 'State's economics put social service agencies, their clients in jeopardy'
