We make 71. Yesterday we were at 69. Our highs are going to be near 70 and a stray shower is possible. The potential for showers is higher tonight. Right now 48 degrees. Don and juliet its 43 degrees. 49 in morris. A wide range of temperatures across the region. Satellite composite shows cloud cover coming a doorway. It will keep us from cooling down too much rain to the south and west. The warm front will arrive tomorrow morning. We have the chance of showers and again tonight. 55 degrees by noon. 90 and 20 percent chance of rain. Three days forecast we have High Temperature of 80 degrees or tuesday. And when say we make 77. We have some construction out there. Looking at some of these items that will cause you to slow down. Stretch at the circle interchange at the eisenhower this looks like its in bound. One plane moving slow. It has bought into that circle. At the county line theyre doing 15 minutes. The clean closures. Work on 57 as well. All those details and more coming up. The b
Temperatures. Coast to lake to be lucky to be in the 60s but further away you will have warmer readings. Sunshine returns today. Clouds are decreasing, High Temperature is 2 degrees below that average. A bit of in lake breeze. 53 degrees at the lakefront. 50 in waukegan. 58 in kankakee. Satellite and radar mixed in together. Cloud cover generally to the south. It could potentially be fall. Some of those areas so that rain yesterday. There is potential today for some to come to the south. Satellite rid our composite shows dry conditions. Take your umbrella and put it away. A fairly nice extended stretch of sunshine starts today. Todays high 72 cooler along the lake. Mar 77. The saturday no rain. We do have quite a bit of work out there by 190. Its really impacting some of the lanes. Singling them both directions read a round at c drive. Also delays in the tristate into mannheim. Watch for those delays early. Likely will only get worse pushing into the 5 00 hour. The blackhawks are still
quarter of the fiscal year, a deficit of almost half a billion dollars. more importantly no plan for a budget. she says that she inherited a fiscal disaster. through better management and austerity measures the board president says the projected 2013 deficit now stands at less than $200 million. a tax on the sale of guns and ammo. many on the board supports the idea of discouraging smokers helping to prevent lung cancer. to remains to be seen if she has the votes to pass her budget. a chicago man accused of growing marijuana with a street value of about half a million dollars will be in court this afternoon for a bond hearing. wgn s nancy loo reports police seized those pot plants from an indoor growing facility. is the photography studio. it is quite a big studio space. according to police much of it was not being used for photography. he faces a number of charges including a felony count for manufacturing marijuana and weapons violations. reassume hauling away a lot of
city pays the company for the money the company loses when the meters are taken out of service . that happens during festivals and street repairs . the company claims that the city owes $14 million for 2011 and the administration is disputing that figure in a letter a city official calls those amounts legally and factually erroneous . chicago parking meters collected $80 million from city meters and the financial records exceeded the profits that wall street s projected . i sent that letter back and in the envelope there was not a check because i am not doing this . just because you send an invoice assuming i am going to have these taxpayers fork over money for you . they can assume all they want but they have another thing coming . the mayor says he has a team of legal experts examining the deal for loopholes for the city to get out of that business . chicago parking meters limited liability company also wants money as compensation for providing free parking to the handicap
and i m dina bair. we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web. wgn s robert jordan is live at city hall with today s top story. the supporters of both measures say that the city is broke and out of money and that a partnership between financial institutions the city and private interests are a good way to repair infrastructure and make capital improvements but the council says that the measure has not been an ins acted nearly enough we need equity and accountability . summit to assess steak that community groups want to make sure that this infrastructure trust doesn t go through without checks and balances attached to the measure . they complain that some of the deals in the past were flawed and were pushed through the council hastily now they re putting in speed cameras in red light cameras to supplement income that they use to get from parking meters . the aldermen are expected to pass this measure calling for the partners