Senate fails to pass unemployment benefits extension - - BusinessRockford.com

At issue are the several tiers of unemployment insurance available to workers whose initial 26 weeks of benefits have expired. The federal government funds several types of extensions for people who have been jobless for longer than that.
The cutoff wouldn’t affect most people already receiving extended benefits, said Maurice Emsellem of the National Employment Law Project. Instead, people seeking to obtain benefit extensions would not be able to obtain them. It’s also an administrative nightmare for state labor departments.
About 1.1 million people could lose benefits in the unlikely event the impasse lasts through March.

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Boone County spends $18K to fix sewer problem

 “Our feeder line seemed to be blocked or broken and we couldn’t identify where the problem was,”…

Employees at the building had no working restrooms from Feb. 5 to Feb. 12.

spend an unbudgeted $18,683.50 to remedy the problem. …

$12,975 of the emergency funding went to cover the plumbing and sanitary repair, with the remainder supporting a field manager and landscaping, sidewalk repair, and curb replacement, which will be done this spring.

[State Rep. Jehan Gordon, D-Peoria] … said because many urban school districts, in Chicagoland and across downstate Illinois, are losing their property tax base, a cut in general state aid would hit them harder

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