Officials call for action on state's capital spending plan

URBANA – The state could gain 18,000 jobs a month if the legislature could pass a capital spending plan, bipartisan advocates said.

State legislators, University of Illinois officials and labor leaders were in front of Lincoln Hall on Tuesday to press for moving forward on the plan, which stalled last month when House Speaker and Democratic Party leader Michael Madigan refused to call the bill.

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