A new measure designed to temporarily fill a large hole in the state's budget is now official. The Illinois Senate approved a bill yesterday that would rearrange money in the current budget to plug a one-point-six-billion-dollar gap. Governor Rauner later signed the bill into law. The law will now transfer around one-point-three-billion-dollars from state funded programs and cut the entire budget by two-and-a-quarter-percent. The money is expected to pay for the salaries of prison guards, court reporters and child care workers.
