The state’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability has decreased its current-year budget forecast by $728 million, erasing much of a once-predicted surplus that had led Gov. JB Pritzker to float the idea of tax cuts earlier this spring.
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Daily Herald opinion: The Supreme Court s rejection of back pay for two former lawmakers who sought the return of pay raises they d voted to forgo is a happy outcome to a case that still carries a heavy cost in lost voter confidence in elected leaders.