Officials call for action on state's capital spending plan
By Paul Wood
Wednesday June 18, 2008
Vanda Bidwell/The News-Gazette
State Rep. Chapin Rose speaks at a political gathering at Lincoln Hall on the University of Illinois campus. A bipartisan group of local legislators joined with university officials, local business leaders and union members to call on the General Assembly to pass a capital spending plan this summer.
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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