CAPITOL NEWS DAILY: A whirlwind news day in Illinois
House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, left, and Deputy Minority Leader Tom Demmer criticize Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget proposal during a news conference Wednesday at the Capitol in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
By CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS STAFF
The current governor delivered a budget address, a corrupt former-governor delivered a coming-home-from-prison address, and news broke late that the state’s powerful House Speaker was named in a federal subpoena of a small southwestern suburb Wednesday in a whirlwind Illinois news day.
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