State budget headed to Pritzker for signature

SPRINGFIELD – In a late Memorial Day session the Illinois Senate voted to approve the state budget 41-18. The $42.2 billion dollar plan had a total revenue estimate of $42.3 billion. The Illinois House passed the bill earlier on Monday 72-46, with both votes going down party lines.   The legislators were facing a deadline of midnight to pass the budget, which would begin July 1st. A failure to have a majority vote by today would have triggered a required supermajority to pass the spending plan.